All articles starting with B

Bcrypt

Bcrypt is a password hashing function designed by Niels Provos and David Mazières, based on Blowfish and presented in 1999, with a cost parameter that slows verification as hardware improves.

BCS National Championship Game

BCS National Championship Game: college football's title game for the Bowl Championship Series, played 1999-2014 (16 games), first Tennessee-FSU 1999, last FSU-Auburn 2014, replaced by the CFP.

BCS theory, or the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory, is the microscopic quantum theory of superconductivity, formulated in 1957 by John Bardeen, Leon Cooper, and John Schrieffer, who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics for it.

BCS–BEC crossover

The BCS–BEC crossover is the continuous evolution of a fermionic superfluid from weak-coupling Cooper pairs to a Bose–Einstein condensate of tightly bound pairs as attraction increases.

BCT (Gdańsk)

BCT, or Baltic Container Terminal (Bałtycki Terminal Kontenerowy), is a container terminal in the Port of Gdynia, Poland, not Gdańsk, owned by ICTSI since 2003.

Sep 19, 2026

BCUC

BCUC, short for Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness, is a seven-piece Afro-psychedelic band from Soweto, Johannesburg, formed in 2003 and known for singing in all 12 official South African languages.

BD Kiestra

BD Kiestra is a brand of laboratory automation for clinical microbiology, developed by KIESTRA Lab Automation in the Netherlands and owned by Becton, Dickinson from 2012, in Work Cell Automation and Total Laboratory Automation configurations.

BD Rowa Vmax

The BD Rowa Vmax is a modular, high-bay robotic system that stores and dispenses medication packages in hospital and retail pharmacies using chaotic random-access storage.

BD Wong

BD Wong (Bradley Darryl Wong, born 1960) is an American actor from San Francisco, Tony winner for Song Liling in M. Butterfly, known as Dr. George Huang on Law & Order: SVU, Dr. Henry Wu in Jurassic Park/World, Whiterose in Mr. Robot, and the voice of Shang in Mulan.

BD-06 1339

BD-06 1339, also cataloged as Gliese 221 or GJ 221, is a K-type dwarf star about 66 light-years away in Orion with two planets announced in 2013.

BD-08 2823

BD-08 2823 is a K3 V dwarf star 41.3 parsecs away with two radial-velocity planets: hot Neptune BD-08 2823 b (14.4 Earth masses, 5.6-day orbit) and Saturn-like BD-08 2823 c (0.33 Jupiter masses, 237.6-day orbit), discovered 2009.

BD-10 3166

BD-10 3166 is a metal-rich G-type star about 84.4 parsecs away, hosting BD-10 3166 b, a 0.59-Jupiter-mass hot Jupiter in a 3.49-day, 0.04 au orbit, found by radial velocity in 2000.

BD-11 4672

BD-11 4672 (HIP 90979, GJ 717) is a K-dwarf star 27 parsecs away with two radial-velocity planets: gas giant BD-11 4672 b (0.65 Jupiter masses, 4.5-year orbit) and eccentric Neptune-mass BD-11 4672 c (74-day orbit, e=0.40).

BD-210397

BD-210397 (HIP 10337) is a K7V dwarf star 77.4 light-years away in Cetus with two 2023-discovered gas giants: BD-210397 b (0.7 Jupiter masses, 5.2-year orbit) and BD-210397 c (about 4.8 Jupiter masses, 17-year eccentric orbit).

Oct 20, 2026

BD+20 2457

BD+20 2457 is a metal-poor K2 giant star in Leo about 1,540 pc away, hosting two brown-dwarf-mass companions (21.4 and 12.5 Jupiter masses) found in 2009; its fitted orbits are dynamically unstable and the star is a retrograde halo star.

Oct 20, 2026

BD+60 1417

BD+60 1417 is a young (50–150 Myr) K0 star 146.6 light-years away in Ursa Major hosting BD+60 1417 b, a 15 Jupiter-mass L6–L8γ companion imaged at 1662 au via Backyard Worlds in 2021.

Bdcm

BDCM, also known as Black Diamond Capital Management, is a Stamford, Connecticut-based alternative asset manager founded by Stephen H. Deckoff in 1995, running distressed credit, CLO, and private equity platforms.

BDD-G3S study

BDD-G3S (Database of Data Collection in Senological Surgery), NCT03461172, is an observational breast cancer surgery database run by Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Marseille, with over 25,000 records from more than 20 French centers, targeting 50,000 by 2026.

BDE (wrestler)

BDE (Brandon Collymore, "BrandonDoesEverything"), born 1999, American YouTuber turned pro wrestler signed to TNA in January 2026; debuted for Wrestling Revolver in 2025; high-flyer trained by Ace Austin and Sami Callihan.

BDE-47

BDE-47, or 2,2′,4,4′-tetrabromodiphenyl ether, is a brominated flame retardant once used in foams and textiles; the dominant PBDE congener, it is a persistent organic pollutant slated for global elimination.

Bdellovibrio

Bdellovibrio, especially Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus, is a genus of predatory Gram-negative bacteria discovered in 1962 that invades and digests other Gram-negative bacteria from within their periplasm, forming a bdelloplast, and is studied as a living antibiotic against multidrug-resistant pathogens.

BDKRB2

BDKRB2 (bradykinin receptor B2, BK-2 receptor) is the human gene at 14q32.2 encoding a class A GPCR for bradykinin and kallidin; constitutively expressed, Gq/Gi-coupled, target of icatibant for hereditary angioedema.

BDO Global

BDO Global, also known as BDO International, is a network of independent accounting firms offering audit, tax, and advisory services, ranking fifth globally outside the Big Four.

BDO World Darts Championship

BDO World Darts Championship: the British Darts Organisation's world title, first held 1978, staged at the Lakeside Country Club from 1986, broadcast by the BBC until 2016, and ended by the BDO's September 2020 collapse, succeeded by the WDF World Championship.

BDSBAS

BDSBAS (BeiDou Satellite-based Augmentation System) is China's satellite-based augmentation system, part of BeiDou, broadcasting corrections via geostationary satellites to improve navigation accuracy in China and surrounding areas.

BDSM

BDSM, an acronym for bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, and sadism and masochism, is an umbrella term for consensual adult practices involving restraint, power exchange, and intense sensation, first recorded 1990–95.

Bdt Capital Partners

Bdt Capital Partners is a Chicago-based private equity investment manager founded by Byron Trott in 2009, headquartered at 401 N. Michigan Avenue and operating since 2023 under BDT & MSD Holdings.

Be (BTS album)

Be (BE) is BTS's fifth Korean-language studio album, released November 20, 2020 on Big Hit; an eight-track, 29-minute pandemic-era record with heavy member involvement, led by "Life Goes On" and closing with "Dynamite," that debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

Be (Common album)

Be (2005) is the sixth studio album by Chicago rapper Common, produced mainly by Kanye West with J Dilla contributions, released on GOOD Music, debuting at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, and earning four Grammy nominations.