• ☝️ You’re looking at some of the best science images from May, as selected by the journal Nature’s photo team.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 💰 US markets closed mixed yesterday (S&P: -0.02%; Dow: +0.2%; Nasdaq: -0.1%). | 🎮 GameStop shares rose 48% yesterday following news that meme-stock folk hero Keith Gill, aka “Roaring Kitty,” scheduled a YouTube livestream for today (his first in nearly four years).
• 🚘 Hertz is currently selling its used Teslas at a “no-haggle” average price of $25,000, per CNBC.
• 🏦 The European Central Bank cut interest rates slightly from its previous record-high level; it marks the ECB’s first rate cut since 2019.

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 🏹 A new Hunger Games book will be released in March 2025, author Suzanne Collins announced; Sunrise on the Reaping, set 24 years before the original novel, will also be turned into a film released in November 2026. | 🎡 Pat Sajak’s final episode of Wheel of Fortune airs today; the show’s longtime host (41 seasons and 8,010 episodes) previously announced his retirement last year.
• 🥎 Oklahoma softball swept Texas to win the Women's College World Series, marking the school's fourth straight national championship.
• 🏀 NBA Finals: The Boston Celtics defeated the Dallas Mavericks 107-89 last night in Game 1. | 🏀 Billionaire Michael Bloomberg has reportedly joined the prospective Minnesota Timberwolves ownership group of Marc Lore and Alex Rodriguez.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

in partnership with Spleash

• 🚀 Boeing’s Starliner capsule successfully docked with the ISS yesterday following a slight delay due to thruster issues.
• ☀️ Microsoft unveiled an AI platform capable of modeling global weather and air pollution, with the ability to provide precise predictions in under a minute.
• 🐶 University of Michigan researchers trained AI models to identify the emotion, gender, and breed of a dog based on its bark, per a new study.

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MISCELLANEOUS

• 🚬 The FDA rescinded its 2022 ban on Juul vaping devices, placing the products back under scientific review; the agency has yet to make a final decision on Juul’s legality.
• ⚖️ The fourth day of Hunter Biden's federal gun crime trial featured testimony from prosecutors’ witnesses including Hallie Biden, his widowed sister-in-law and ex-romantic partner. (Read more)
• 💰 A US appeals court suspended a VC-backed grant program created exclusively for Black women-owned businesses; the program will be placed on hold while a discrimination lawsuit plays out in court. (Read more)

CLICKBAIT

• 🦸🐄 Brazil unveils its $4 million supercow.