What if you looked at the world around you, saw where things are headed on this planet and said to yourself, you know what? I want to start fresh. A group of scientists did just that — but things didn ...
Biosphere 2—while Biosphere 1 is Earth—offers a unique opportunity for immersive education. Through engaging science stories, students and educators can delve into our cutting-edge research as they ...
In the early 1990s, eight people agreed to vanish from the world and live for two years inside a sealed glass habitat in the Arizona desert, a kind of fake Earth built to see whether humans could ...
Biosphere 2 was a highly ambitious experiment to simulate a self-sustaining Mars colony in the Arizona desert. Eight men and women locked themselves inside for 2 years and experienced one incredible ...
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 ...
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 ...
What if you could opt out of society and go live in a completely self-contained glass bubble in the desert? You and your team would be cut off from the rest of society. For two years, you’d have to ...