Deep inside the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, a concrete wedge in the permafrost holds a backup copy of the world’s food ...

Among genebanks, there is something called the black box system, where you can send seed duplicates to another genebank for ...

This week, the Doomsday Seed Vault in Norway is scheduled to receive nearly 25,000 samples of seeds from around the world, including those of grains that grow on one of the world's highest mountain ...

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A large deposit to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault has taken the number of seed samples stored at the facility to more than a million. The so-called "doomsday vault"—located on a remote Norwegian ...

Staff members transport seed samples into the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway, on June 3, 2025. Fourteen gene banks from around the world are depositing more than 11,200 ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — Now in its fifth year, the Victory Garden Program run by the Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) and Ohio State University (OSU), has expanded to 64 counties. This year’s ...

Samples taken from the asteroid Ryugu contain traces of comet particles, which some researchers say could be the "seeds of life." The samples were originally collected from Ryugu by Japan's Hayabusa2 ...

For the grass seed industry, spotting weed seeds and other unwanted interlopers among thousands of grass seeds is as tedious as it is necessary. Samples of grass seed are repeatedly analyzed by ...

Nearly 10 years after a "doomsday" seed vault opened on an Arctic island, some 50,000 new samples from seed collections around the world have been deposited in the world's largest repository built to ...