All articles starting with B

Buffer zone

A buffer zone is an area between adversarial powers, like the Netzarim Corridor in Gaza. By April 2025, this zone made up at least 50% of the strip.

Bufferbloat

Bufferbloat is a network phenomenon in which oversized buffers in routers, modems, and Wi-Fi equipment build up queues, adding high latency that harms VoIP, video streaming, and gaming.

Buffet (自助餐): self-service dining format where guests select from displayed dishes, usually at a fixed price. Covers etymology, Scandinavian and Las Vegas origins, service types, food-safety temperature limits, food waste, and nutrition research.

Oct 3, 2026

Buffet Froid

Buffet froid is a 1979 French black comedy by Bertrand Blier, his fifth feature, starring Gérard Depardieu, Bernard Blier, and Jean Carmet as killers in a deserted Paris; it won the 1980 César for Best Screenplay.

Buffeting (wind engineering)

Buffeting in wind engineering is the along-wind vibration of a structure caused by turbulent wind gusts, an unsteady loading that grows with wind speed rather than a self-excited instability.

Buffing and draft gear

Buffing and draft gear is the assembly of springs, friction elements, and coupler hardware at a railcar's ends that cushions pulling and pushing forces between train vehicles.

Oct 20, 2026

Buffon (lunar crater)

Buffon is a 105.76-km-wide impact crater on the lunar far side at 40.64°S, 133.53°W, named in 1970 for French natural historian Georges Louis Leclerc (1707-1788), with satellite craters Buffon D, H, K, and V approved in 2006.

Buffon's needle problem

Buffon's needle problem, posed by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1733, asks the probability that a needle dropped at random crosses one of a set of parallel lines.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Buffy Sainte-Marie (Beverly Jean Santamaria, born 1941), American Oscar-winning folk singer-songwriter of 'Up Where We Belong' and 'Universal Soldier'; lost Order of Canada, Junos, Polaris prizes, and honorary degrees after a 2023 CBC investigation disputed her Cree ancestry claims.

Buffy Summers

Buffy Summers, protagonist of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003) and its 1992 film, is the Slayer, a Chosen One fighting vampires in Sunnydale; played by Sarah Michelle Gellar, analyzed as an Adventurer-Hero archetype, she is a landmark feminist television heroine.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, also called BtVS, is Joss Whedon's 1997-2003 supernatural drama starring Sarah Michelle Gellar as Slayer Buffy Summers in Sunnydale; seven seasons, 144 episodes, and a Hulu revival cancelled in 2026.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992 film), Joss Whedon's feature screenwriting debut directed by Fran Rubel Kuzui, a horror-comedy starring Kristy Swanson as a cheerleader chosen to slay vampires; a box-office disappointment that spawned the acclaimed 1997 TV series.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight: 40-issue Dark Horse Comics series (2007–2011), the canonical comic continuation of the TV show overseen and partly written by Joss Whedon, opening with The Long Way Home.

Oct 3, 2026

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: New Sunnydale

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: New Sunnydale was an unproduced Hulu sequel pilot to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, directed by Chloé Zhao, starring Ryan Kiera Armstrong with Sarah Michelle Gellar recurring; Hulu passed in March 2026.

Buflomedil

Buflomedil (Loftyl) is a vasoactive alpha-adrenolytic vasodilator once used for stage II peripheral arterial occlusive disease symptoms in Europe from the 1970s; the EMA suspended all EU marketing authorisations in 2012 over serious neurological and cardiac toxicity and limited efficacy.

Bufo

Bufo (Garsault, 1764; Chinese 蟾蜍属) is a genus of true toads in Bufonidae, now restricted to 26 Old World species including Bufo bufo; formerly a wastebasket genus, with a disputed type species and authorship.

Bufo Alvarius: the Psychedelic Toad of the Sonoran Desert

Bufo alvarius (Incilius alvarius), the Sonoran Desert or Colorado River toad, is a large southwestern US-Mexican toad whose parotoid secretion contains the psychedelic 5-MeO-DMT, smoked since the 1980s and now threatened by poaching.

Bufonidae

Bufonidae, the true toads (family Gray, 1825), are 663 species of toothless anurans with Bidder's organ and parotoid glands rich in bufadienolides, found worldwide except Madagascar, Oceania, and east of Wallace's Line.

Buford Dam

Buford Dam is a 192-foot earthfill dam on the Chattahoochee River in northern Georgia, built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and completed in 1956.

Buford Pusser

Buford Hayse Pusser, McNairy County, Tennessee sheriff 1964-1970 and subject of the Walking Tall films, died in a 1974 crash; in 2025 Tennessee authorities concluded he likely killed his wife Pauline in the 1967 ambush.

Buformin

Buformin (1-butylbiguanide) is a biguanide antidiabetic drug reported in 1958 by Beringer, used mainly in Germany, and withdrawn in most countries in the late 1970s for lactic acidosis risk; it remains available in Romania.

Bufotenin

Bufotenin, also called bufotenine or N,N-dimethylserotonin, is a tryptamine alkaloid named after the toad genus Bufo, first isolated in 1934 and synthesized in 1935, and a positional isomer of psilocin.

Bufotes

Bufotes (green toads, Eurasian green toads) is a Palearctic genus of true toads (Bufonidae) erected by Rafinesque in 1815, synonym of Pseudepidalea, with 12-15 species including Bufotes viridis and allopolyploid hybrid species.

Bufotoxin

Bufotoxin: family of cardiotoxic steroid esters in toad gland secretions, formed from bufadienolides plus suberyl-arginine; Na+/K+-ATPase inhibitors used as Chan su in Chinese medicine and a cause of often-fatal toad poisoning.

Bug (2006 film)

Bug (2006 film) is a psychological horror film directed by William Friedkin. It stars Ashley Judd and Michael Shannon in a paranoid story set in an Oklahoma motel.

Bug (engineering)

A bug is a defect in an engineered artifact, such as software, that causes incorrect behavior or failure; the term dates to Edison's 1878 usage.

Bug algorithm

The Bug algorithm is a sensor-based robot navigation method in which a mapless robot heads straight toward a goal and follows obstacle boundaries when blocked.

Bug bounty program

A bug bounty program, or bug bounty, is an arrangement where organizations pay external security researchers for reporting vulnerabilities in their software, with rewards tied to severity.

Bug Ego

Bug Ego (バグエゴ, Bagu Ego) is a seinen manga by ONE (One-Punch Man) and Kiyoto Shitara, serialized by Shueisha in Ultra Jump since October 2024, about high schoolers using a notebook of reality-altering hacks.