Thirty years ago last month, on Sept. 26, 1993, a group of eight weary, visionary adventurers “returned” to Earth after two years of living together in a miniature version of our world — a ...

ORACLE, AZ — Arizona is home to one of the most unique science experiments in the world. Biosphere 2 is a groundbreaking research facility studying climate change and ecosystems inside an enclosed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A page from the Deseret News on Sept. 26, 1991, as the eight "Biospherians" entered their enclosed life biosphere in Oracle, Ariz.

Biosphere 2 started with eight scientists and a very ambitious experiment. Now, almost 35 years later, it's still being used for cutting-edge research. Scientists continue to use it to study Earth's ...

TUCSON - Residents can soon visit the rainforest without leaving the Grand Canyon State - the Biosphere 2 will reopen its rainforest ecosystem for public tours starting Saturday. Back in September, ...

ORACLE, Ariz. (KVOA) — Just about an hour out of Tucson is the world's largest controlled environment dedicated to understanding the impacts of climate change. We're talking about the University of ...

ORACLE, ARIZONA (dpa) – At its start 10 years ago Biosphere 2 was intended as a test to see whether humans could survive on Mars and other planets. Four men and four women attempted to survive totally ...

Caption Pinyon pine trees at the conclusion of the Biosphere 2 experiment. The tree left was kept 4 degrees Celsius warmer and died weeks before the drought-stressed tree kept at ambient temperatures, ...

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 ...

Microbes are doing a lot under the soil surface that can't be seen with the naked eye—from sequestering carbon to building the foundation of Earth's crust. But even tiny microbes are feeling the ...