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

BUSINESS & MARKETS

• 📊 US markets fell across the board (S&P: -1.8%; Dow: -1.5%; Nasdaq: -2.6%).
• 📝 Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen resigned following a board investigation into his personal conduct; it ends his more than four-decade career at the grocery chain.
• 💰 TSMC, one of the world's largest chip manufacturers, will invest $100 billion in the US to boost its production, President Trump announced yesterday.

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

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• 🏈 ✌️ Jimmy Johnson, who won two Super Bowls and a national championship as a coach, announced his retirement from Fox Sports; he was a part of the network’s NFL coverage for 31 years.
• 🏀 Serena Williams joined the ownership group of the WNBA’s Toronto Tempo, the league’s first expansion team in Canada.
• 🙏 Angie Stone, Grammy-nominated R&B legend, 63, died in a vehicle accident. | 🎤 Alanis Morissette announced an eight-show residency for later this year at the Colosseum at Caesars in Vegas.
• 🎥 The first Shrek 5 trailer is here.

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SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

• 🤖 Anthropic raised $3.5 billion at a $61.5 billion valuation; brings AI company’s fundraising total since inception to $17 billion.
• 🚀 SpaceX scrubbed the eighth test flight of Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built.
• 🌊 New research suggests the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, the world’s strongest ocean current, will be 20% slower by 2050; could impact biodiversity and decrease the productivity of fisheries, among other things. | 💧 Water may have first formed 100–200 million years after the Big Bang, earlier than previously thought, per a new modeling paper.

MISCELLANEOUS

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• 🥶 The US experienced its coldest meteorological winter (from December-February) since 2013-14, though 67% of the country experienced below-average snowfall. | 🔥 Firefighter crews were battling ~170 wildfires across North and South Carolina as of yesterday; the blazes have prompted some evacuations and a state of emergency in SC.
• ⚖️ The Highland Park parade shooter abruptly pleaded guilty to all charges related to the 2022 mass shooting in Illinois that killed seven people and wounded 48 others.
• 🇺🇸🇷🇺 US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reportedly suspended offensive cyber operations against Russia by US Cyber Command; other agencies’ operations aren’t affected.

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