All articles starting with D

Daphne Zuniga

Daphne Zuniga (Daphne Eurydice Zuniga, born 1962) is an American actress known as Princess Vespa in Spaceballs, Jo Reynolds on Melrose Place (1992-1996), Victoria Davis on One Tree Hill, and as an environmental activist and director.

Daphni Monastery

Daphni Monastery (Μονή Δαφνίου), an 11th-century Byzantine monastery in Haidari near Athens on the Sacred Way, famed for its gold-ground mosaics including the dome Christ Pantocrator; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1990 with Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni.

Daphnia

Daphnia (water flea), planktonic cladoceran crustacean genus with cyclic parthenogenesis; keystone freshwater grazer and leading model organism in ecotoxicology, ecology, and evolutionary genomics; key species Daphnia magna and Daphnia pulex.

Daphnia magna

Daphnia magna, commonly called the water flea, is a small freshwater planktonic crustacean living in ponds and lakes across Europe and North America, and a standard test organism in aquatic ecotoxicology.

Daphnia pulex

Daphnia pulex, commonly called the water flea, is a widespread freshwater crustacean that grazes algae in lakes and ponds and was the first crustacean to have its genome sequenced.

Daphnis (moon)

Daphnis is a small moon of Saturn, about 8 kilometers across, discovered by Cassini in 2005. It orbits inside the Keeler Gap, sculpting its edges into waves.

Oct 22, 2026

Daphnis and Chloe

Daphnis and Chloe is an ancient Greek prose romance by Longus, written in the 2nd or 3rd century CE about two foundlings discovering love on Lesbos.

DAPI

DAPI (4′,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole) is a blue-fluorescent AT-minor-groove DNA stain, excitation/emission 358/461 nm, used for fixed-cell nuclear counterstaining, flow cytometry viability, and DNA content analysis; less cell-permeable than Hoechst 33342.

Dapingding Tropical Botanical Garden

Dapingding Tropical Botanical Garden (大坪頂熱帶植物園) is a free, 24-hour urban tropical botanical garden in Siaogang District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Opened January 1, 2010 near Fongshan Reservoir, it holds 500+ species and 60,000+ plants across themed zones and four trails.

Dapivirine

Dapivirine (DPV-VR, dapivirine vaginal ring 25 mg): an NNRTI antiretroviral delivered by a monthly silicone vaginal ring for HIV prevention in women; EMA Article 58 opinion 2020, WHO prequalified and recommended 2021, ~27–31% efficacy in phase 3 trials.

DAPK1

DAPK1 (death-associated protein kinase 1, DAPK) is a Ca2+/calmodulin-regulated serine/threonine kinase discovered in 1995 by Adi Kimchi; a tumor suppressor regulating apoptosis and autophagy, implicated in cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and stroke.

DAPO

DAPO is an open-source reinforcement learning recipe for training large language models on reasoning tasks, released in March 2025 by ByteDance Seed and Tsinghua University researchers.

Dapoxetine

Dapoxetine (Priligy) is a short-acting SSRI taken 1-3 hours before sex for premature ejaculation; approved in Europe and elsewhere but not the USA, with 2.5-3.0-fold IELT increases in phase 3 trials.

Dapper

Dapper (Dact, Frodo) is a chordate-specific family of scaffold proteins (DACT1-3 in humans and mice) that bind Dishevelled via a C-terminal PDZ-binding motif and regulate Wnt and TGF-β signaling in development and cancer.

Dapper Dan (designer)

Dapper Dan, born Daniel Day in 1944, is a Harlem fashion designer whose 1982-1992 boutique made custom logo-printed luxury garments for hip-hop stars, closed after lawsuits, and was revived with Gucci backing in 2018.

Dappy

Dappy (Costadinos Contostavlos, born 1987) is a British rapper and singer from Camden, London, member of N-Dubz with Tulisa and Fazer, whose 2011 solo debut single "No Regrets" reached UK Number 1.

Daprodustat

Daprodustat (Jesduvroq, GSK1278863) is an oral HIF prolyl hydroxylase inhibitor approved in 2023 by the FDA for anemia of chronic kidney disease in adults on dialysis, with a boxed thrombotic-event warning.

Dapsone

Dapsone (DDS, 4,4'-diaminodiphenylsulfone) is a sulfone antibiotic and anti-inflammatory drug, first-line with rifampicin and clofazimine in WHO leprosy multidrug therapy and used topically for acne.

Sep 29, 2026

DAPT score

The DAPT score is a clinical tool that predicts whether extending dual antiplatelet therapy after coronary stenting will help or harm, introduced by Robert W. Yeh in 2016.

Daptomycin

Daptomycin (Cubicin) is a cyclic lipopeptide antibiotic from Streptomyces roseosporus, FDA-approved 2003/2006 for Gram-positive skin infections and S. aureus bacteremia, dosed once daily, not for pneumonia.

Oct 10, 2026

Daqin Railway

Daqin Railway (大秦铁路) is a 653 km electrified heavy-haul railway from Datong, Shanxi to Qinhuangdao port, China's first coal-dedicated heavy-haul line, carrying a record 451 million tonnes in 2018.

Daqing (venue)

Daqing International Raceway (Daqing Racing Town), Daqing, Heilongjiang, China: FIA Grade 3 permanent circuit, 3.164 km, 12 turns, 735 m straight, debuted 2024, hosts TCR China and Formula 4 racing.

Daqing (大庆)

Daqing (大庆, "Great Celebration") is a Heilongjiang oil city built around China's largest oilfield, discovered in 1959; it made China oil-self-sufficient in 1964, held a 27-year production plateau, and is now transitioning its economy.

Daqing Field

Daqing Field (大庆油田) is a giant oil field in Heilongjiang Province, China, discovered in 1959; it is China's largest and a pioneer of polymer flooding and chemical enhanced oil recovery.

Daqing Oil Central power station

Daqing Oil Central power station (大庆油田热电厂) is a 900 MW coal-fired cogeneration plant in Daqing, Heilongjiang, China, built from 1989 to 2013 to power the Daqing Oilfield and heat the city's east district.

Daqing-Jinxi Oil Pipeline

The Daqing-Jinxi Oil Pipeline (大庆-锦西原油管道) is a crude oil pipeline in northeastern China running from the Daqing Oilfield to Jinxi in Liaoning, whose original Qingtie lines were China's first long-distance, double-line oil pipeline.