'Doomsday vault' gets large shipment of rice

Monday, November 8, 2010 - 15:00 in Mathematics & Economics

In hopes of bolstering our defenses in the event of a major food crisis, researchers sent tens of thousands of seeds from different types of rice last week to a "doomsday vault" in the archipelago Svalbard.

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