This vault is designed to store valuable seeds from crops all over the world if some worst-case scenario happens on Earth, like climate change, nuclear war or some environmental degradation or some other global crisis. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a highly secured seed bank that is situated on the Norwegian island between the mainland and the North Pole.

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Can you imagine fitting over 2,000 letters on a rice seed or writing a message on one hair? Vladimir Aniskin is a genius of microminiatures from Russia. He can write and draw on rice, hairs, and even create amazing microsculptures on poppy seeds and grape seeds. See some of his most wonderful works (it takes up to half a year to create one microminiature) after the jump.

Three pictures are drawn on the section of a rice seed.

This is one of the masterpieces introduced in Tate Modern’s vast Turbine Hall (London) by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. At first glance, these are usual sunflower seeds. But if you take a closer look, you’ll see huge seeds that are not real. These are hand-painted replicas made out of porcelain. Each seed is unique, and there are one hundred million of them. Can you believe that it took 2.5 years and 1,600 people to produce this installation?