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Why did closing a Cold War-era Air Force base on the shore of a Great Lakes peninsula in the 1990s trigger the return of nesting piping plovers to beaches that had not seen a chick fledge in decades?
Training compute for notable AI models is doubling roughly every five months, dataset sizes for large language models every eight months, and the electrical power required to train them roughly every year, according to Stanford's 2025 AI Index
In 1980, Mount St. Helens in Washington devastated 230 square miles of forest and buried the North Fork Toutle valley in debris, and ecologists tracking the blast zone since have watched pocket gophers, lupines and returning elk shape recovery across areas left to natural succession
The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, discovered over Chile in July 2025, may be more than 7.6 billion years old — roughly 3 billion years older than our solar system — and its speed and trajectory suggest it came from the Milky Way’s ancient thick-disk population, making it a possible relic of a planetary system that formed billions of years before ours
