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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An employee at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research in Germany shows off a specimen of frozen plant ...

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 ...

The government plans to deposit additional rice seed samples in “doomsday vaults” here and abroad in a move to preserve the ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

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 ...