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Braer Storm
The Braer Storm was an extratropical cyclone over the North Atlantic, named for the tanker MV Braer, that reached a record low pressure of 914 mb on 10 January 1993.
Braess paradox
The Braess paradox is the observation that adding a link to a congested network can increase travel costs for every user, described by Dietrich Braess in 1968.
Braess's paradox
The Braess Paradox, described by Dietrich Braess in 1968, is the counterintuitive finding that adding a link to a congested network can worsen travel times for all users.
BRAF (gene)
BRAF (B-Raf proto-oncogene, serine/threonine kinase), also called BRAF1 or RAFB1, is a chromosome 7q34 gene encoding a RAF-family MAPK kinase. Its V600E mutation drives about 8% of cancers, especially melanoma, and is targeted by vemurafenib and dabrafenib.
BRAF rearrangement analysis
BRAF rearrangement analysis is molecular diagnostic testing that detects BRAF gene fusions in tumor tissue, found especially in pilocytic astrocytoma, to support cancer diagnosis and guide RAF- or MEK-directed therapy.
Braga
Braga (Bracara Augusta), city and municipality in northwestern Portugal founded by Augustus around 16 BC; former capital of Gallaecia and the Suebian kingdom; 212,635 residents in 2025, seat of Portugal's oldest archdiocese.
Braga District
Braga District (Distrito de Braga), a northwest Portugal district in the Minho region with capital Braga city; 14 municipalities, 371 parishes, about 846,000 residents (2021), area 2,706 km², density 312.7/km².
Brage
IK Brage (Idrottsklubben Brage), Swedish football club founded 1925 in Borlänge, Dalarna; green-white colors, home Domnarvsvallen. 18 Allsvenskan seasons, 1980 cup final, UEFA Cup vs Inter 1988; now Superettan, two-star academy.
Brage Oil and Gas Field
Brage is an oil and gas field in the northern Norwegian North Sea, about 125 kilometers west of Bergen, producing since 1993 and currently operated by OKEA ASA.
Brage Prize
The Brage Prize (Norwegian: Brageprisen) is an annual Norwegian literary prize, awarded since 1992 to honor the year's best Norwegian books in fiction and nonfiction classes.
Bragg (lunar crater)
Bragg is a 77.21-km-wide impact crater on the far side of the Moon at 42.33°N, 103.44°W, IAU-approved in 1970 and named for Sir William Henry Bragg, the Australian physicist and Nobel laureate (1862-1942).
Bragg coherent diffractive imaging
Bragg coherent diffractive imaging (BCDI) is a lensless X-ray technique that reconstructs the electron density and displacement field of a single nanoscale crystal, mapping internal strain and defects.
Bragg peak
The Bragg peak is the sharp maximum in energy deposition that a charged particle produces near the end of its path through matter, the basis of proton cancer therapy.
Bragg's law
Bragg's law, also called the Bragg equation, gives the condition for diffraction by crystal planes: nλ = 2d sin θ, underpinning X-ray determination of atomic structure.
Brahim Asloum
Brahim Asloum, French boxer born 1979 in Bourgoin-Jallieu; Olympic light-flyweight gold at Sydney 2000 and WBA light-flyweight world champion 2007-2008; later broadcaster, promoter, and club executive.
Brahim Boutayeb
Brahim Boutayeb (Moulay Brahim Boutayeb, مولاي ابراهيم بوطيب), Moroccan runner born 1967 in Khemisset; 1988 Seoul Olympic 10,000 m gold in 27:21.46 Olympic record, 1991 World 5,000 m bronze, later a rally driver.
Brahim Díaz
Brahim Díaz (born 1999, Málaga) is a Moroccan international attacking midfielder and winger for Real Madrid; ex-Manchester City and AC Milan, he switched from Spain to Morocco in 2024 and starred at the 2026 World Cup.
Brahim Lounis
Brahim Lounis is a French nanophysicist and professor at Université de Bordeaux who demonstrated the first triggered single-photon source based on a single molecule at room temperature.
Brahma (ब्रह्मा)
Brahma (ब्रह्मा), also known as Lord Brahma, is the creator god in the Hindu trimurti alongside Vishnu and Shiva, shown with four heads, and rarely worshipped today.
Brahma Anandam
Brahma Anandam (బ్రహ్మ ఆనందం) is a 2025 Telugu comedy-drama directed by debutant RVS Nikhil, starring Brahmanandam and his son Raja Goutham as an estranged grandfather-grandson; released 14 February 2025, streamed on Aha from 19-20 March 2025, mixed reviews around 2.5/5.
Brahma chicken
The Brahma chicken is a large, feather-legged American breed developed from Chinese fowl imported through Shanghai in the mid-1800s, once nicknamed the King of All Poultry.
Brahma Kumaris
The Brahma Kumaris, originally called Om Mandli, are a millenarian spiritual movement of Indian origin founded in the 1930s by gem trader Lekhraj Kripalani, now headquartered at Mount Abu, Rajasthan.
Brahma Rasayana
Brahma Rasayana (Brāhma rasāyana), also called Abhaya Amalaki Avaleha, is a classical Ayurvedic polyherbal rejuvenative confection of amla, haritaki, ghee, and dozens of herbs, used traditionally for fatigue, memory loss, and senility.
Brahma Sankara Misra
Brahma Sankara Misra, honored as Maharaj Saheb, was an Indian spiritual teacher who led the Radhasoami Satsang at Agra as its third guru from 1898 until his death in 1907.
Brahma Sutras
The Brahma Sutras, also called the Vedanta Sutras, are a Sanskrit aphorism text attributed to Badarayana, composed around the fifth century CE, that systematizes the Upanishads' teaching on Brahman.
Brahma Temple, Pushkar
The Brahma Temple, Pushkar (Jagatpita Brahma Mandir) is a Hindu temple in Pushkar, Rajasthan, dedicated to the creator god Brahma and standing near Pushkar Lake.
Brahmachari
Brahmachari (ब्रह्मचारी) is a 1968 Hindi comedy-drama-musical directed by Bhappi Sonie, starring Shammi Kapoor as a bachelor raising twelve orphans, with Rajshree, Pran, Mumtaz, and Shankar-Jaikishan music.
Brahmacharya (ब्रह्मचर्य)
Brahmacharya (ब्रह्मचर्य) is a Sanskrit term meaning conduct oriented to the highest reality, a vow of continence in yoga and Jainism and the Hindu student stage of life.
Brahmadeya and devadana grants
Brahmadeya and devadana grants (ब्रह्मदेय एवं देवदान) were revenue-free land endowments in early medieval South India, to Brahmins and to temple deities, recorded on copper-plate charters.
Brahmagupta (ब्रह्मगुप्त)
Brahmagupta (ब्रह्मगुप्त), Indian astronomer-mathematician born 598 in Bhillamāla/Bhinmal, author of the Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta (628) and Khaṇḍakhādyaka (665); first systematic rules for zero and negative numbers, cyclic quadrilateral area formula, and astronomy transmitted to the Arab world.