Three times a year, a fortress within the remote mountainside of a Norwegian island opens its doors to a select few. Such ...

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

At least 12,000 seed samples from 19 genebanks have been deposited in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, safeguarding vital crop ...

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

Science news highlights include NASA's SPHEREx mission to explore the Big Bang aftermath, SpaceX's plan to deploy Starlink ...

Partner organizations from across the globe are gathering in Norway this week to deposit seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed ...

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

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

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

You may have heard about the large underground seed vault in Svalbard, Norway, which opened in 2008. But you might be ...

A total of 14,000 seed samples from 21 gene banks are being deposited this week in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, the ...