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Costco offers new Gold Star Members a $20 digital shop card with a $65 annual membership through a limited-time promotion. This incentive lowers the effective cost to just $45, encouraging first-time sign-ups and highlighting broader savings on groceries, prescriptions, and more.
Scientists and citizen contributors are using humpback whale tail photos and AI to track individuals, revealing migration patterns and fostering public empathy in conservation efforts.
Earth's rotation is accelerating slightly, making summer 2025 days up to 1.38 milliseconds shorter than 24 hours. Driven by core dynamics and seasonal atmospheric changes, the trend affects GPS systems but not daily life.
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AI systems from Google and OpenAI achieved gold-medal performance at the 2025 International Math Olympiad, solving 5 of 6 problems. Yet five human teens scored perfectly—highlighting AI's lingering limits in pure reasoning despite rapid progress.
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In a groundbreaking development, CCTV footage from Myanmar's 2025 M7.7 earthquake has provided the first visual evidence of a supershear strike-slip fault rupture. Recorded 74.5 miles from the epicenter, the video shows ground displacement of 8.2 feet in 1.3 seconds, confirming pulse-like rupture dynamics and curved fault movement.
A new study reveals that lightning strikes kill approximately 320 million trees each year, releasing up to 1.09 billion tons of CO₂—highlighting a major, previously underestimated ecological disturbance with significant implications for carbon modeling and forest resilience in a warming world.
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