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 ...

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 first became famous as the human experiment of the 1990s that sealed a group of eight researchers inside its 3 acres of diverse ecosystems for two long years. The goal was to experiment ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, right, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Biosphere 2 first became famous as the human experiment of the 1990s that sealed a group of eight researchers inside its 3 acres of diverse ecosystems for two long years. From a distance, Biosphere 2 ...