The facility, owned by the University of Arizona, was closed for a day in November to accommodate MrBeast's production crew.

In the early 1990s, eight people agreed to vanish from the world and live for two years inside a sealed glass habitat in the ...

Nowadays, the ambitious and wild Biosphere 2 experiment is only remembered as a footnote to the Pauly Shore film Bio-Dome, which is a shame. The Biosphere 2 project was ambitious, idealistic, and ...

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 ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. The human terrarium. The first reality show. Spaceship earth. On Sept. 26, 1991, four men and four women began a two-year ...

John de Dios Steve DeLong, project manager for Biosphere 2’s Landscape Evolution Observatory, thanks his large team for their hard work with getting the project up and running. DeLong will leave ...

On Sept. 26, 1991, a grand experiment began. Eight people were locked in the giant terrarium, Biosphere II, to live without physical contact with the outside world for two years. Biosphere II was a ...