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Dead Sea Scrolls
The Dead Sea Scrolls, also called the Qumran Scrolls, are roughly 900 to 1,200 ancient Jewish manuscripts found in caves near the Dead Sea between 1947 and 1956.
Dead Sea Transform
The Dead Sea Transform, also called the Dead Sea Fault, is a roughly 1,000-km-long left-lateral fault system between the Arabian plate and the Sinai subplate.
Dead Set
Dead Set is a five-part British zombie horror satire created by Charlie Brooker. It depicts a national zombie outbreak during a live Big Brother eviction night.
Dead Silence
Dead Silence (2007) is a supernatural horror film directed by James Wan and written by Leigh Whannell, about widower Jamie Ashen and the ventriloquist Mary Shaw of Ravens Fair; it earned 22% on Rotten Tomatoes and $16.5 million domestically.
Dead Snow
Dead Snow (Død snø) is a 2009 Norwegian horror comedy directed by Tommy Wirkola, in which medical students at a remote Finnmark cabin fight Nazi zombies; Sundance premiere, 140,000 Norwegian tickets, 2014 sequel.
Dead Souls (2025 film)
Dead Souls (Dead $oul$) is a 2025 American-Spanish Western directed by and starring Alex Cox as Strindler, loosely adapted from Gogol's 1842 novel; set in 1890 Arizona, co-written with Gianni Garko, released by Kino Lorber in 2026.
Dead Souls (Мёртвые души)
Dead Souls (Мёртвые души) is Nikolai Gogol's satirical prose 'poem' of 1842, written 1835–1852, in which Chichikov buys deceased serfs still on census rolls to mortgage them; a Dantean three-part plan, only volume one published.
Dead Space
Dead Space: EA's sci-fi survival horror franchise begun in 2008 by Glen Schofield at EA Redwood Shores (Visceral Games), known for limb-severing combat and diegetic UI; sequels, a 2023 Motive remake, and a franchise now on hold.
Dead Space (2008 video game)
Dead Space is a 2008 science-fiction survival horror game by EA Redwood Shores, in which engineer Isaac Clarke fights Necromorphs aboard the mining ship USG Ishimura.
Dead Space (2023 video game)
Dead Space (2023) is EA Motive's from-scratch remake of the 2008 survival horror classic, released January 27, 2023 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC in Frostbite, with a voiced Isaac Clarke, one-shot interconnected Ishimura, and nearly two million copies sold.
Dead space (physiology)
Dead space (physiology): wasted ventilation, the lung volume not participating in CO2 exchange; anatomic plus alveolar dead space, measured by Bohr or Enghoff equations, elevated in ARDS and pulmonary embolism.
Dead Space 2
Dead Space 2 is a 2011 survival horror third-person shooter by Visceral Games and EA for PS3, Xbox 360, and PC, following Isaac Clarke through a Necromorph outbreak on the Sprawl station on Titan, with free-flight zero-G and multiplayer.
Dead Space 3
Dead Space 3 is Visceral Games' 2013 sci-fi survival horror game for PS3, Xbox 360, and PC, the third main entry, adding drop-in co-op as John Carver, weapon crafting, and Kinect voice commands on the icy planet Tau Volantis.
Dead Stars
"Dead Stars" is a 1925 short story by the Filipino writer Paz Márquez Benítez, first published in the Philippines Herald and considered the first Filipino short story in English.
Dead Still
Dead Still (2020) is an Irish-Canadian six-part dark comedy-drama set in 1880s Dublin, following memorial photographer Brock Blennerhasset (Michael Smiley), created by John Morton for RTÉ and Acorn TV; distinct from the 2014 horror film of the same name.
Dead storage
Dead storage is the volume of reservoir water below the lowest outlet that cannot be drained by gravity, traditionally sized to hold decades of sediment.
Dead Take
Dead Take: 2025 first-person psychological horror FMV game by Surgent Studios (Abubakar Salim), published by Pocketpair Publishing for PC. Chase searches producer Cain's mansion for missing friend Vinny; Metacritic 76, Steam 87% positive.
Dead Talents Society (鬼才之道)
Dead Talents Society (鬼才之道) is a 2024 Taiwanese horror-comedy directed by John Hsu, starring Gingle Wang, Sandrine Pinna, and Chen Bo-lin as ghosts competing to stay famous by scaring the living; it won five Golden Horse Awards.
Dead time
Dead time, or insensitive time, is the interval after a radiation detector records a pulse during which further ionizing events are lost, causing count loss at high rates.
Dead to Me (TV series)
Dead to Me is a Netflix dark comedy series created by Liz Feldman, starring Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini as grieving friends entangled by a hit-and-run secret; three seasons, 2019-2022.
Dead to Rights (album)
Dead to Rights is Metal Church's 14th studio album, released April 10, 2026, featuring Brian Allen, David Ellefson, and Ken Mary alongside Kurdt Vanderhoof; a thrash-tinged heavy metal record following 2023's Congregation of Annihilation.
Dead to Rights (南京照相馆) (film)
Dead to Rights (南京照相馆) is a 2025 Chinese historical drama directed by Shen Ao about civilians in a Nanjing photo studio preserving Japanese atrocity photographs during the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, based on the Luo Jin and Wu Xuan album.
Dead Water
Dead Water (死水) is a 1928 poetry collection by Chinese poet Wen Yiduo, whose title poem uses a stagnant pool to symbolize corrupt old China.
Dead zone (ecology)
Dead zone (hypoxia): coastal water with dissolved oxygen below 2 mg/L where marine life dies or flees, caused mainly by nitrogen and phosphorus runoff; largest U.S. example is the Gulf of Mexico summer zone, measured at 8,776 sq mi in 2017.
Dead-ball era
Dead-ball era: period of Major League Baseball, roughly 1901–1919, of dominant pitching and low scoring, ended in 1920 by Babe Ruth's home runs, the spitball ban, and the clean-ball policy after Ray Chapman's death.
DEAD-box and DExH helicases in pre-mRNA splicing
DEAD-box and DExH (DEAH-box) helicases are ATP-driven RNA helicases that the spliceosome uses to rearrange its protein and RNA architecture at nearly every step of pre-mRNA splicing.
DEAD-box helicase family
The DEAD-box helicase family is the largest family of superfamily 2 RNA helicases, named for its DEAD amino acid motif, with 37 members in humans that remodel RNA across metabolism.
DEAD-box helicases in translation initiation
DEAD-box helicases in translation initiation are ATP-dependent RNA helicases, principally eIF4A, Ded1/DDX3, and DHX29, that unwind secondary structure in mRNA 5′ UTRs so the 43S preinitiation complex can scan to the start codon.
Dead-end clamp
A dead-end clamp, also called a strain or tension clamp, is overhead line hardware that terminates a conductor and carries its full tension into a pole or tower.
Dead-End Job
Dead-End Job (꿀알바, Kkul-alba) is a 2026 South Korean Netflix mystery-horror-fantasy series, 8 episodes, premiering October 30, 2026. Lee Jae-wook plays debt-ridden Hyeok-jun, whose jobs paying 50 times minimum wage via Spider Staffing Agency turn nightmarish; directed by Kim Da-min, created by Han Jun-hee.