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

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 💰 US markets fell across the board (S&P: -1.0%; Dow: -0.9%; Nasdaq: -1.2%).
• 💊 Starboard Value, an activist investor firm, has taken a $1 billion stake in Pfizer and is pushing for changes at the pharma giant.
• 🍔 McDonald's filed a price-fixing lawsuit against JBS, Tyson Foods, and other leading meat processing and packing companies. | 🪙 FTX's reorganization plan has been approved by a Delaware bankruptcy judge; as part of the plan, 98% of FTX’s creditors will get 119% of the amount of their allowed claim ($1.19 for every $1).

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• ⚾ MLB Playoffs: All four ALDS and NLDS series are tied 1-1 after two games; NLDS action continues tonight. | 🏀 The New York Liberty beat the Las Vegas Aces 3-1 to advance to the WNBA Finals, ending the Aces’ hopes of a three-peat; the Connecticut Sun and Minnesota Lynx play a deciding Game 5 tonight.
• 🎮 Game developer 343 Industries is changing its name to Halo Studios; the company also said all future Halo games will be moved from its proprietary Slipspace Engine to Unreal Engine 5.
• 🎥 Charli XCX secretly filmed a movie in Poland with playwright/actor Jeremy O. Harris and filmmaker Pete Ohs called ERUPCJA.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

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• 🍎🤖 Apple is planning to release the first Apple Intelligence AI features on October 28 alongside iOS 18.1, per Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.
• 🍽️☄️ Future astronauts on deep-space journeys could transform compounds from asteroids into food, per a new study.
• 🏆🧬 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to American scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA (molecules that help control how genes are expressed).

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MISCELLANEOUS

• 🌀 Hurricane Milton intensified into a Category 5 storm yesterday in the Gulf of Mexico; Milton is projected to make landfall near Tampa late Wednesday or early Thursday, bringing a dangerous storm surge of 8-12 feet to the area.
• 🛍️ Amazon, Walmart, Target, Best Buy, and Kohl’s are all currently hosting major holiday shopping sales. See some of the top deals.
• 🇷🇺 Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer known as the “Merchant of Death” who was released from US prison in a 2022 swap for WNBA star Brittney Griner, is back in business and selling weapons to Houthi rebels in Yemen, per the Wall Street Journal.

CLICKBAIT

• 🤔💼 This job interview question “stumped” an HR expert – now it’s her favorite to ask.