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Svalbard is often described as a remote, frozen wasteland. For conspiracy theorists, early visits to the Global Seed Vault by billionaires such as Bill Gates and George Soros, and representatives from ...

Located between the top of Norway and the North Pole on the Norwegian archipelago called Svalbard is a facility known as the World Seed Vault. Built deep into a mountain, over 1.3 million varieties of ...

Consistency is something all great track and field athletes aim for, and this season Hannah Byrd-Leitner has shown she has that quality in spades. Byrd-Leitner, a Virginia commit, had put together ...

Such infrequency is intentional. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault preserves more than 1.3 million samples in what is the world’s most secure stash of seeds. Far above the Arctic Circle ...

“How do we create more capacity when everyone thinks that there ... Gridcare recently closed an oversubscribed $13.5 million seed round, the company told TechCrunch. The round was led by Xora ...

Salvagers on Tuesday pulled a massive cargo ship, which made world headlines for running aground just meters away from a house in Norway, back into the water, the head of the company managing the ...

Denso Corp. is in final talks to buy a Temasek-backed seed supplier for around $500 million, as the Japanese vehicle parts supplier deepens its expansion into the agriculture sector, people ...

Formerly a co-founder at Synthesia, the realistic AI avatar startup valued at $2.1 billion, Niessner has raised an unusually large seed round for a European startup of $13 million. The round was ...

A man in Norway awoke early Thursday to discover a huge container ship had run aground a stone's throw from his fjord-side house — and he had slept through the commotion. For an as-yet unknown ...

Johan Helberg was fast asleep in the early hours of Thursday when a huge container ship crashed into his garden, narrowly missing his home on the bank of Norway’s Trondheim Fjord. “I went to ...