"Smuggle chainsaws onto the pitch": What Blood Bowl's new publisher thinks the World Cup can learn from Warhammer

What team wouldn't benefit from an ogre?

Last week brought the news that strategy game publisher Slitherine have penned a deal with Cyanide Studios to continue developing Blood Bowl 3 (which will soon become Warhammer Blood Bowl. The tabletop-inflected sport is broadly similar to American football, though there are opportunities for even greater violence on the pitch.

Millions may be getting the wrong cholesterol test

Millions of Americans have a blood test every year to measure LDL, often called "bad" cholesterol. But new research from Northwestern Medicine suggests that another test may do a better job of identifying who needs more aggressive treatment to reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes.

Holders St Mirren, Dundee, Dundee United & Falkirk set for League Cup openers

What are the games to look out for in the Scottish League Cup?

Google's Open Knowledge Format Could Work For Websites, Too

Google published a format for turning a body of knowledge into a folder of linked markdown files. It was built for internal company data, and by accident, it solves a problem public websites have too. Right now, the most an AI agent gets from your website is a flat read of your pages, one at a time. This format builds a graph of how your ideas connect instead, so I tried it on my own website.

Beetroot juice is trending – its benefits go beyond the hype | New Scientist

My friend Lizzie, a very athletic doctor, recently showed me some concentrated beetroot shots she was planning to take before an upcoming marathon. I never run anywhere, but she let me try one anyway. I could only manage slow sips of the intensely beetroot-tasting purple liquid, but she assured me it has a raft of benefits for athletes and non-athletes alike. I decided to look into it.

South Korea’s hottest new bachelors are chip workers

As payouts from the AI boom soar, a job at SK Hynix can put you at the front of the matchmakers’ queue.

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Streetlights are trapping thousands of pill bugs in giant “death spirals”

Researchers have uncovered a surprising side effect of artificial lighting: ordinary streetlights can lure thousands of tiny land dwelling isopods into giant synchronized "death spirals." The newly documented behavior, observed in Israel, is the first of its kind and suggests that human made lighting can dramatically disrupt the instincts of small ground dwelling animals.

China's space probe reaches asteroid after 1-billion-kilometer chase for first sample return

China's Tianwen-2 space probe, which is set to bring back samples from an asteroid for research, has reached its target after traveling 1 billion kilometers (620 million miles) over more than a year, the Chinese space agency said Monday.

Astronomers witness the birth of a magnetar for the first time

Astronomers have, for the first time, observed the birth of a magnetar, an extremely magnetic, rapidly spinning type of neutron star. The breakthrough confirms that these exotic objects can power some of the brightest stellar explosions ever seen.