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

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 💰 US markets fell across the board yesterday (S&P: -0.3%; Dow: -0.6%; Nasdaq: -0.3%). | 🤔 What the stock market typically does after the US election, according to history. (Read)
• 🤑 Berkshire Hathaway is sitting on a cash pile of $325 billion, up from $276.9 billion in Q2, after offloading portions of its Apple and Bank of America holdings. | 📊 Palantir reported strong Q3 results; revenue increased 30% to $725.5 million, while net income was $144 million, a company record.
• 🚢 Key ports on Canada's West Coast have been shut down by a labor strike; an estimated $800 million in trade flows through West Coast ports each day.

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 🏀 College basketball: The men’s and women’s seasons tipped off yesterday. | 🏈 The New Orleans Saints fired head coach Dennis Allen after a seventh straight loss; the Saints’ 2-7 record is tied for worst in the NFL.
• 🙏 Quincy Jones, a music legend and mega-producer who worked closely with hit artists from Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson, passed away at 91.
• 📰🪧 600+ tech workers at the New York Times went on strike yesterday after failing to reach a new contract. | 🚫📱 Blocked users on X can now see public posts by those who have them blocked, after a new policy change took effect. | 🎮🎶 Fortnite launched a new music-inspired season called Chapter 2 “Remix,” featuring partnerships with Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Ice Spice, and Juice WRLD.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

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• 🍬📉 Reducing a child’s sugar intake for the first 1,000 days after conception – from gestation through age 2 – may reduce their risk of developing chronic illnesses in adulthood, per a new study.
• 🤖 MIT researchers debuted a new method to teach robots new skills that was inspired by the technique for training large language models like OpenAI’s GPT-4.
• 🐦 A 12-million-year-old fossil is the largest known member of a species called the “terror bird,” standing 10+ feet tall.

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MISCELLANEOUS

• ⚖️ The Supreme Court agreed to take up a case involving a dispute over the consideration of race in Louisiana’s efforts to draw a congressional district map.
• 💰🗳️ A judge denied a request by Philadelphia’s DA to block a $1 million daily giveaway by Elon Musk’s political action committee to swing-state voters; in court, members of Musk’s PAC testified that winners weren’t chosen at random, but rather specifically handpicked and paid to act as spokespeople.
• ✈️💥 Two incendiary devices recently shipped via DHL are believed to be part of a covert Russian operation aimed at starting fires aboard cargo or passenger aircraft flying to the US and Canada, per a Wall Street Journal report citing Western officials. | 🇮🇱 Israel arrested an aide to PM Benjamin Netanyahu and others for allegedly leaking "classified and sensitive" intelligence taken illegally from the IDF.

CLICKBAIT

• 🐶 Why do dogs wag their tails?