Often dubbed the "Noah's Ark for plants," it preserves millions of seeds in case of catastrophe. "This place is one of the most important in the world," said Espen Barth Eide, Norway's foreign ...

The future of sustained space habitation depends on our ability to grow fresh food away from Earth. The revolutionary new ...

Seeds from the Margot Forde Germplasm Centre in Palmerston North are now stored deep underground in the Arctic.David Unwin / Fairfax NZ A remote Arctic doomsday vault holds a growing collection of ...

A wildflower is a flowering plant you can find growing naturally in an environment, without being planted by humans ...

A global effort to create a "microbial Noah's Ark" to preserve the world's diverse collection of healthy microbes before they ...

Now, the Moon-Rice project, a collaborative effort led by the Italian Space Agency and three Italian universities, aims to develop a “super-dwarf” rice variety ideal for sustained space habitation and ...

Bumblebees do not make honey: they do not need to, for a colony lasts but one long summer. Only the fattest hibernating ...

A global effort to create a "microbial Noah's Ark" to preserve the world's diverse collection of healthy microbes before they ...