For a few fleeting moments in 1991, the Tucson area became the focal point of the science and pop culture worlds. Months later, it became the laughingstockof those dimensions. Matt Wolf’s ...

In 1991, an ambitious idea to have a small group of people lock themselves in a biosphere in order to see how they could ultimately survive became a worldwide phenomenon as fans and the media alike ...

This image released by Neon shows Dr. Roy Walford, foreground, with candidates for the Biosphere 2 Project from the documentary "Spaceship Earth." (Peter Menzel/Neon via AP) During lockdown, have you ...

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.

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 ...