In the early 1990s, eight people agreed to vanish from the world and live for two years inside a sealed glass habitat in the ...

Each night has its own theme; since the Oct. 12 theme was Sci-Fi night, there was a showing of the movie “Silent Running” and a panel to discuss science fiction. Normally, Biosphere 2 runs 75-minute ...

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 ...

Biosphere 2 is building a new bridge. This bridge is a concert that is, according to UA music professor Paula Fan, “”meant to cross the gap between the arts and science.”” Biosphere 2 is hosting ...

UA officials hope to spark higher student achievement in math and science by establishing a $3 million teaching center at Biosphere 2, where educators will work with researchers to address complex ...

Researchers who study Earth's biosphere tend to operate from one of three scientific cultures, each with distinct ways of conducting science, and which have been operating mostly independently from ...

ORACLE, Ariz. - A wildfire in southern Arizona that burned about a half-mile from the Biosphere 2 science facility is now 100% contained, forestry officials said. The Biosphere Fire broke out Sunday ...

Averaging 100,000 visitors per year, the University of Arizona’s Biosphere 2 provides an opportunity for science and the public to have a better dialogue. The sprawling 40-acre campus in Oracle, Ariz.

This review was originally published in 2023. More than any other film you’ll see this year, there is unlikely to be as wonderfully unexpected a work as the one writer-director Mel Eslyn has created ...

That approach is not the usual way science is done in this country. But then Biosphere II is not run-of-the-mill science. Rather, it's an attempt to create a 2.5-acre, enclosed ecological system that ...