The Blood of Dawnwalker review - worthy to sip blood at the top RPGs' table
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Mark Warren31 Aug 2026
The moment I knew The Blood of Dawnwalker had it came when, not far in, one of the local peat diggers fell into a big hole.
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top 52%Did you solve it? The fin-tastic fish puzzle
The Guardianby Alex Bellos31 Aug 2026
Earlier today I set you the following puzzles. Here they are again with the solutions. A fish is swimming in a tank that is two metres high, one metre across and one metre deep.
Interstellar travel V: Warp drives, wormholes, and halo drives
Phys.orgby Matthew Williams31 Aug 2026
Interstellar travel V: Warp drives, wormholes, and halo drives Welcome back to our series on Interstellar Travel, where we look at the many proposals made for sending missions to the stars since...
Extraordinary immune gene diversity in Atlantic herring exceeds that of other vertebrates, including humans
Phys.orgby Camryn Haines31 Aug 2026
Extraordinary immune gene diversity in Atlantic herring exceeds that of other vertebrates, including humans Atlantic herring travel in massive schools that can contain hundreds of millions—and...
Developing provably correct Rust code with Verus
Amazon Science Homepageby Bryan Parno31 Aug 2026
Many open-source and industry software projects, including several here at Amazon, are embracing the Rust programming language, since it provides performance and flexibility similar to that of the...
Your LLM Can Return Perfect JSON and Still Be Wrong | Towards Data Science
Towards Data Science - Mediumby Benjamin Nweke31 Aug 2026
Three weeks after I turned on Structured Outputs for a pipeline that parsed payment confirmation messages into transaction records, I noticed that our reconciliation job started flagging a small...
A snake-headed vessel hints at a mysterious Roman cult
Phys.orgby Paul Arnold31 Aug 2026
A snake-headed vessel hints at a mysterious Roman cult Paul Arnold Author The ancient Romans were a deeply religious and superstitious people, worshiping dozens of cults—some official and others...
Trump Crashed NASA's Press Conference to Praise the Space Telescope He Repeatedly Tried to Kill
Gizmodoby Passant Rabie31 Aug 2026
Following the successful launch of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on Sunday, the agency held a news conference to discuss the observatory’s upcoming science operations.
To nap or not to nap? Science is still waking up to the question
Science Newsby Sujata Gupta31 Aug 2026
In Muslim-majority Oman, most people wake before dawn for morning prayers. People often go back to sleep afterward or take afternoon naps, says sleep medicine researcher Mohammed Al-Abri of Sultan...
GPS Glitched Across The US by as Much as 33 Feet. Scientists Have Never Seen This Before.
ScienceAlertby Michelle Starr31 Aug 2026
In November 2025, Earth was buffeted by several massive eruptions of solar material that slammed into the magnetosphere. For many, the result was wonder.
JWST reveals likely Type II supernova from when universe was only 2 billion years old
Phys.orgby Shreejaya Karantha31 Aug 2026
JWST reveals likely Type II supernova from when universe was only 2 billion years old Shreejaya Karantha Author Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified one of the most...
Chemists develop method for the synthesis of natural compounds with potential in medicine
Phys.orgby Charles University31 Aug 2026
Chemists develop method for the synthesis of natural compounds with potential in medicine A team of scientists from the Department of Organic Chemistry at the Faculty of Science, Charles...
Metamaterials may enable invisibility cloaks, thinner lenses and smarter wireless networks
Phys.orgby Sara-Lena Brännström31 Aug 2026
Metamaterials may enable invisibility cloaks, thinner lenses and smarter wireless networks Who has not dreamed of an invisibility cloak like the one used by Harry Potter?
Popular sweeteners may leave effects that last for generations
ScienceDaily31 Aug 2026
Popular sweeteners may leave effects that last for generations Popular zero-calorie sweeteners changed the gut and metabolism of mice, with some effects unexpectedly echoing into future...
FAQ as RAG: When You Get to Design the Corpus | Towards Data Science
Towards Data Science - Mediumby Kezhan Shi31 Aug 2026
A FAQ is already the answer, pre-written and paired with its question. Ask “What is my deductible?” and the right response is a lookup away: the support team wrote it, word for word, months ago.
One injection could keep osteoarthritis drugs working for weeks
ScienceDaily31 Aug 2026
One injection could keep osteoarthritis drugs working for weeks - Date: - August 31, 2026 - Source: - Research Foundation for the State University of New York - Summary: - Scientists have created...
Fine-Tuning SOTA Object Detection Models on Real-World Datasets - The JetBrains Blog
The JetBrains Blogby Arina Belova31 Aug 2026
Fine-Tuning SOTA Object Detection Models on Real-World Datasets In our previous blog post in this series, we discussed state-of-the-art models for object detection: the architectures, the theory...
Your waist size may reveal health risks BMI misses
ScienceDaily31 Aug 2026
Your waist size may reveal health risks BMI misses A tape measure around your waist may reveal obesity-related health risks that BMI alone can miss.
Flexible nanopores shed new light on Parkinson's and ALS
Phys.orgby Adrian Chalifour31 Aug 2026
Flexible nanopores shed new light on Parkinson's and ALS In a promising milestone for nanotechnology, Constructor University has contributed to a study demonstrating self-assembling nanopores...
Australia Confirms Its First Known Bird Flu Death in a Dolphin
Gizmodoby Matthew Phelan31 Aug 2026
Australia spent decades blissfully free from highly pathogenic H5 strains of bird flu, which have spread chaos (and occasionally killed human beings) across the world’s more interconnected...