If you’re younger than age 35 and reside outside the Southwest, it’s unlikely you’ve heard of Biosphere 2. The 3.14-acre complex that was a major news story in the late 1980s and early 1990s has since ...

Did you ever wonder how old the water is that you see flowing at Sabino Dam? Probably not, if you’re not a hydrologist. But this is an important question in relation to the water resources available ...

ORACLE, Ariz. — Plopped in the Sonoran Desert, just outside Tucson, Ariz., sits a massive, multilevel greenhouse that's probably best known as the inspiration for a Pauly Shore movie. A slick, stepped ...

Biospherians (left to right): Jane Poynter, Linda Leigh, Mark Van Thillo, Taber MacCallum, Roy Walford (in front), Abigail Alling, Sally Silverstone and Bernd Zabel inside the Biosphere 2 in 1990. In ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- A full-size model Phoenix Lander has landed at Biosphere 2 before it heads, ultimately, to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C "When we send Viking to Mars, or Voyager ...

ORACLE, Ariz. — After being closed since mid-March because of the pandemic, Biosphere 2 has opened its gates to a brand new nighttime experience. It is a unique new way to see this unique science lab ...

In the COVID-19 era, many people are seeking socially distanced activities where the risk of transmitting the coronavirus is minimal. Here's a new, limited-time-only experience that could alleviate ...

Biosphere 2 will continue to operate as one of the world’s most diverse controlled ecological systems thanks in part to a $30 million endowment from its co-founder. Philanthropist Edward P. Bass, who ...

The political and social issues we wrestled with in the 1960s and 1970s still haunt us in the 2020s. From social justice to climate change, space exploration to alternative economies, it is curious ...

Biosphere 2, a facility dedicated to the research and understanding of global scientific issues, is reopening. A bunch of scientists won't live in it this time. Instead the new owners of the Biosphere ...

The tropical rain forest section of the UA’s Biosphere 2 is closed to the public for four months as researchers conduct a study on drought. The remaining areas under glass in the Biosphere, near ...