60-million-year-old grape seeds reveal how the demise of the dinosaurs may have paved the way for the spread of grapes

Lithouva - the earliest fossil grape from the Western Hemisphere, ~60 million years from Columbia. The top figure shows a fossil accompanied by a CT reconstruction. The lower part shows…

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The James Webb Space Telescope suggests that supermassive black holes grew from heavy cosmic ‘seeds’

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has observed light from stars surrounding some of the earliest supermassive black holes in the universe -- black holes observed as they were less…

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