An international team of researchers has descended on University of Arizona’s Biosphere 2, sealing off the complex’s rain forest, to conduct a one-of-a-kind study examining the impact of droughts on ...

Nestled in the foothills of the Catalina Mountains, around 31 miles from Tucson, there exists an oasis; a collection of environments one would never anticipate to exist in the scorched Arizona desert.

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 ...

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 ...

Over the past 60 years, we’ve sent robots, cocky test-pilots and even a geologist to the moon. Now it’s the artists’ turn. Starting Sunday, a dancer, a poet, a writer and a textile artist from the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Scott Saleska, University of Arizona; Chris Impey, University of Arizona, and Ghiwa ...