How the Chicxulub Impactor gave rise to modern rainforests
New and improved plant sex: Plants produced attractive flowers containing sugary rewards for insects who carry pollen (basically the male sperm of the plants) to other flowers, helping plants reproduce. This strategy was so successful that flowering plants took over tropical forests, and the world.
WASHINGTON, DC
.- Tropical rainforests today are biodiversity hotspots and play an important role in the worlds climate systems. A new study published in Science sheds light on the origins of modern rainforests and may help scientists understand how rainforests will respond to a rapidly changing climate in the future.
Smikom to buy Eurocement
06 April 2021
Russia: Holdings company Smikom has won the auction to buy Eurocement from Sberbank. RBC News has reported the value of the deal as Euro2.1bn. Smikom, formerly known as BaselCement, will acquire a 100% share of Cyprus-based GFI Investments, which controls Eurocement Group. The final terms of the deal are still being agreed, according to sources quoted by the Russia-based media group. Neither Sberbank nor SmiKom have commented on the matter.
Sberbank acquired a 100% stake in GFI Investment in November 2020 following an increase in its debts in mid-2020. An electronic auction process for company then started in February 2021.
30 people caught breaking Covid rules at huge house party in Nuneaton
Police have revealed all of the call-outs from the Easter Bank Holiday weekend
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Calder-Picasso: Two giants of modernity meet at the de Young museum
Triple Gong, ca. 1948. Brass, sheet metal, wire, and paint, 39 x 75 x 2 3/4 in.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
.-The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco are presenting Calder-Picasso at the de Young museum. Conceived by the artists grandsons Alexander S. C. Rower and Bernard Ruiz-Picasso, it is the first major museum exhibition to explore the formal resonances between the works of Alexander Calder and Pablo Picasso, two of the most innovative and influential artists of the 20th century. In more than 100 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and photographsincluding many iconic worksthe exhibition presents a compelling presentation of the artists exploration of the void, or the absence of space, which they defined from the figure through to abstraction.