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. — 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 ...

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 glass structure ...

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 ...

Before dawn on April 4, 1994, Abigail Alling and Mark Van Thillo slipped across the foothills of Arizona’s Santa Catalina Mountains. They made their way to a looming monument of geodesic domes and ...

UA officials at Biosphere 2 are working to mold the site of the controversial experiment into a premier scientific hub that gives the public unprecedented access to climate and ecological research.

Claim to fame A lab that replicates the Earth’s biomes, now the site for developing a “universal theory of water” The landscape is a microcosm of the American Southwest: scrubby foothills shadowed by ...