All articles starting with B

BrainOS

BrainOS is a commercial operating system for autonomous mobile robots developed by San Diego company Brain Corporation, powering robots for floor care, shelf scanning, and material handling.

Sep 19, 2026

Brainpower

Brainpower is the stage name of Gertjan Mulder (born 1975, Antwerp), a Dutch-language rapper and producer based in Amsterdam and one of the Netherlands' best-selling rappers.

BrainScaleS is a family of mixed-signal neuromorphic computing systems developed at Heidelberg University, where analog circuits physically emulate spiking neural networks about 1,000 times faster than biological real time.

Brainscan

Brainscan is a 1994 horror and science-fiction film directed by John Flynn, in which teenager Edward Furlong plays a CD-ROM game whose murders occur in real life.

Brainstem

Brainstem: the lower brain region connecting cerebrum to spinal cord and cerebellum, made of midbrain, pons, and medulla oblongata; controls breathing, heart rate, blood pressure, consciousness, and houses ten cranial nerve nuclei and the reticular formation.

Brainstem haemorrhage

Brainstem haemorrhage (ICD-11 8B00.2) is bleeding in the midbrain, pons, or medulla; primary pontine hemorrhage is the most fatal intracerebral hemorrhage subtype, mainly hypertensive, managed conservatively.

Brainstem lesion

Brainstem lesion: abnormal tissue in the midbrain, pons, or medulla from vascular, neoplastic, inflammatory, infectious, metabolic, or traumatic causes; diagnosed mainly by MRI, classified focal or diffuse, with crossed cranial nerve and body signs.

Brainstem stroke syndrome

Brainstem stroke syndrome is stroke affecting the midbrain, pons, and medulla, accounting for roughly 10% to 15% of strokes; its hallmark is crossed deficits, and severe cases can cause locked-in syndrome.

Brainstorm (1983 film)

Brainstorm is a 1983 American science fiction thriller directed by Douglas Trumbull, starring Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood, Louise Fletcher, and Cliff Robertson; it is Wood's final film.

Sep 19, 2026

Brainstorm (group)

Brainstorm is a German power metal band from Heidenheim, formed in 1989 by guitarists Torsten Ihlenfeld and Milan Loncaric, known for fourteen studio albums and German chart success.

Sep 19, 2026

Brainstorm Research Foundation

Brainstorm Research Foundation is an Alzheimer's disease research nonprofit registered in Portola Valley, California, founded by 23andMe co-founder Linda Avey in 2009 to build a community of people with family history of the disease.

Brainstorming

Brainstorming, coined by Alex Osborn at BBDO and set out in Applied Imagination (1953), is a group idea-generation method with rules deferring evaluation; research shows nominal groups outperform interactive ones, with production blocking the main cause.

Braintree (company)

Braintree, also known as Braintree Payments, is a full-stack payment platform founded in Chicago in 2007 by Bryan Johnson and acquired by PayPal for about $800 million in 2013.

Braintree town

Braintree Town F.C., "The Iron", English football club founded 1898 in Braintree, Essex, playing at Cressing Road Stadium (capacity 4,222); Conference South champions 2010-11, relegated from the National League in 2026.

Braintree, Massachusetts

Braintree, Massachusetts: Norfolk County town incorporated 1640, birthplace of John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and John Hancock; population 39,143 (2020), mayor-council government, South Shore Plaza, Red Line terminus, and a 752-unit MBTA Communities Act development.

Brainwashed (George Harrison album)

Brainwashed is George Harrison's twelfth and final studio album, released posthumously on 18 November 2002, completed by Dhani Harrison, Jeff Lynne, and Jim Keltner from Harrison's instructions, fifteen years after Cloud Nine.

Brainwashing

Brainwashing: popular term for coerced radical belief change, from Edward Hunter's 1950 translation of Chinese hsi nao during the Korean War; scholarly successors are Lifton's thought reform and Schein's coercive persuasion, both lacking a settled scientific definition.

Braising

Braising (French braiser, from "ember") is a combination cooking method: sear food, then cook it covered in a small amount of liquid, partway up the food, until collagen converts to gelatin and tough cuts turn fork-tender.

Braitenberg vehicle

A Braitenberg vehicle is a simple hypothetical machine of sensors wired directly to motors, whose movement appears purposeful, devised by Valentino Braitenberg in his 1984 book Vehicles.

Oct 22, 2026

Braj Bhasha poetry

Braj Bhasha poetry (ब्रजभाषा काव्य) is verse composed in Braj Bhasha, a Western Hindi dialect and the chief poetic language of North India from the medieval period into the early twentieth century.

Oct 22, 2026

Brajangana

Brajangana Kavya (ব্রজাঙ্গনা কাব্য) is an 1861 collection of Bengali lyric poems by Michael Madhusudan Dutt, written on Radha's grief after Krishna's departure from Braj, and credited as the first ode in Bengali.

Sep 21, 2026

Brajesh K. Singh

Brajesh K. Singh is an Australian-based soil scientist and microbial ecologist at Western Sydney University known for large-scale studies showing that losses of soil microbial diversity reduce ecosystem functions.

Sep 27, 2026

Brajesh Pathak

Brajesh Pathak, born 1964, is an Indian BJP politician serving as Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh since 2022, after earlier serving as a BSP member of the Lok Sabha from Unnao.

Brake

A brake is a device that slows or stops a moving vehicle, wheel, or engine by converting kinetic energy into heat through friction. Road vehicles use disc or drum brakes, often with ABS.

Brake assist

Brake assist, also called emergency brake assist (EBA) or BAS, is a vehicle braking system that detects a panic stop and boosts braking force beyond the driver's pedal input.

Brake fluid

Brake fluid is the hydraulic liquid that transmits force from the brake pedal to the wheels, and is graded as DOT 3, DOT 4, DOT 5, and DOT 5.1.

Brake pad

A brake pad is a block of friction material mounted in a disc brake's caliper that clamps the rotor under hydraulic pressure, converting kinetic energy into heat.

Brake specific fuel consumption

Brake specific fuel consumption (BSFC) is a measure of engine fuel efficiency: fuel consumed per unit of brake power, usually in g/kWh, and inversely proportional to brake thermal efficiency.

Brake-by-wire

Brake-by-wire is a vehicle braking system that transmits the driver's braking request electronically from pedal sensors to the wheels, without a mechanical or hydraulic connection.