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 ...

Four middle school students from Baker City — and their adult chaperones — spent three days immersed in science at Biosphere ...

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 ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

TUCSON (KVOA) - 30 years ago, 8 people were sealed in the Biosphere 2 facility for an experiment that was the first of its kind. On September 26, 1991, a crew of 8 closed an airtight door, locking ...

In the Arizona desert, a vast glass structure sits far from cities and farmland. It was built to test an idea that once seemed urgent and uncertain. C.

Editor’s note: This is the first part in a two-part series detailing developments in the UA’s operation of Biosphere 2. The UA looks to tackle “”grand challenges”” and inform the public about science ...

Mel Eslyn has been making movies for nearly two decades, but not in the role she thought she'd be in. Eslyn, a Menomonee Falls native who graduated from Pewaukee High School, is president of Duplass ...

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There are so many flavors of the apocalypse film, including the bombast and spectacle à la Roland Emmerich and the punky desert chic of a “Mad Max.” But there’s also the lo-fi take, the kind of ...