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Front entrance of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

Happy Birthday Seeds!

... seed banks like this one are essential not only as an archive of wild and cultivated species, keeping them safe ... changing climate could reduce maize production in Southern Africa by 30 percent over the next 20 years, which shows that ...

An image of a spiral galaxy

The biggest ever telescope

... part of it is in Australia, and the rest is in southern Africa. The HQ though is in the UK at Jodrell Bank ... generating on the order of 700 petabytes a year into the archive for the astronomers to use. And that dwarf's the ...