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 ...

Tourists aren't the only ones flocking to Oracle's Biosphere 2. Hollywood has also come calling. Hassan Hijazi, a spokesman for the science center, says he gets four or five requests a year from ...

Those who say there's no money in short films don't know about Ren Hinks, who's made his living with the art form for half a decade. In 2005, Hinks left his video production job with Biosphere 2 to ...

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 ...

Biosphere 2's ocean ecosystem contains 700,000 gallons of sea water brought in from the California coast — more than an typical Olympic-size swimming pool. Scientists suit up in scuba gear to explore ...