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

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 💰 US markets closed mixed (S&P: -0.3%; Dow: -0.5%; Nasdaq: +0.2%).
• 🌐🤝 Verizon agreed to buy fellow telecom giant Frontier Communications for $20 billion, including debt.
• 🦞 Red Lobster received court approval to exit Chapter 11 bankruptcy and allow a group of investors under the name RL Investor Holdings to acquire the company.

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 🥇 The 2024 Paris Paralympics wrap up this weekend; closing ceremony is Sunday; see the latest medal count. | 🏈 The Kansas City Chiefs beat the Baltimore Ravens 27-20 last night, officially kicking off the NFL regular season; the Packers take on the Eagles tonight in São Paulo, Brazil. | 💰🏈 CNBC published a list ranking the valuations of all 32 NFL teams; see how they stack up.
• 🙏 Rich Homie Quan, the Atlanta rapper known for hits like “Type of Way,” died at the age of 34. | 🎭 Michael Keaton said he plans to update his stage name to Michael Douglas Keaton; the actor was prevented from using his birth name – Michael Douglas – at the start of his career due to Screen Actors Guild rules against duplicate names.
• ⚽ Alex Morgan, the US striker widely recognized as one of the greatest players in women’s soccer history, announced her retirement after 15 years; Morgan helped lead the USWNT to two FIFA World Cup titles and an Olympic gold medal. | ⚾ The Chicago Cubs threw a combined no-hitter in their 12-0 victory against the Pirates on Wednesday night; starter Shota Imanaga tossed seven hitless innings.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

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• 💪👀 A team of researchers developed a method to make living tissue such as human skin transparent – in a safe and temporary manner – using a common food dye, per a study published yesterday in Science.
• 💊 The Drug Enforcement Agency raised its production cap on the ADHD drug Vyvanase and its generic equivalents by ~24%; the move is aimed at addressing recent shortages due to high demand.
• 🤖 OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever's new venture, Safe Superintelligence, raised $1 billion to help develop safe AI systems, per a Reuters report. | 🐷🫀 Biotech startup eGenesis raised $191 million to further develop human-compatible transplants using gene-edited pig organs; eGenesis provided the world's first genetically modified pig kidney transplanted into a human in March.

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MISCELLANEOUS

• 🎓 The top US colleges of 2025 are Princeton, Babson, and Stanford, according to the annual Wall Street Journal/College Pulse rankings published yesterday.
• 🌐📚 The Internet Archive lost its appeal in a legal case over whether it could lend out scanned ebooks without the approval of publishers.
• 🚨 The father of the 14-year-old Georgia school shooting suspect was arrested yesterday in connection with the Wednesday shooting that left four people dead; the father is charged with second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter, and cruelty to children. | ⚖️ Hunter Biden pleaded guilty to all nine charges in his federal tax evasion case, in a last-minute reversal of Biden’s initial plan to fight the charges at trial. (From the Left | From the Center | From the Right)

CLICKBAIT

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