A "doomsday" vault storing food crop seeds from around the world in man-made caves on a remote Norwegian Arctic island will ...

Safeguarding crop diversity in a time of climate change remains a priority for much of the world — even if that's not the ...

Sudan, a country bordering Egypt in northeast Africa has decided to send crop samples to the "doomsday" vault in a remote ...

The main objective of the Arctic Circle Seed Vault is to preserve genetic diversity in agriculture. In a world where climate ...

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway will receive 14,022 new seed samples on Tuesday. Built in 2008, the vault safeguards ...

Fourteen thousand seeds from 21 countries are heading to the Arctic this week, bound for the Svalbard Global Seed Vault—a ...

On Feb. 25, the World Agroforestry Center (CIFOR-ICRAF) deposited seeds representing tree species of special value to ...

A “DOOMSDAY vault” has received a new delivery of crop seeds to preserve forever if the Earth is wiped out by a nuclear war.

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NASA is set to launch SPHEREx to examine post-Big Bang events, search for water in the Milky Way, and a satellite to locate ...

Recent science updates include evidence of ancient Martian beaches, NASA's SPHEREx telescope mission, Starlink's airspace ...