Foucault’s pendulum experiment led to an increase in the public’s interest in both real-life science and science fiction.

In the Arizona desert sits one of the most ambitious scientific experiments ever attempted: a $200 million facility designed ...

In Arizona, nature is diverse and dramatic. The state's Tonto Natural Bridge State Park is home to the world's largest natural travertine bridge, where visitors can hike and explore its unparalleled ...

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Researchers who study Earth's biosphere tend to operate from one of three scientific cultures, each with distinct ways of conducting science, and which have been operating mostly independently from ...

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 ...

By studying life deep inside a former gold mine, a Northwestern University-led team of scientists has uncovered evidence that ...

Scientists combined 44,000 citizen science photos, experiments, and genetic data to understand how prairie grasses adapt to ...

Claim to fame A lab that replicates the Earth’s biomes, now the site for developing a “universal theory of water” The landscape is a microcosm of the American Southwest: scrubby foothills shadowed by ...