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Dust (His Dark Materials)
Dust, also known as Rusakov particles and dark matter, is a fictional substance in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials. It is an invisible matter that gathers around conscious beings.
Dust Bolt
Dust Bolt is a German thrash metal band from Landsberg am Lech, Bavaria, formed by schoolmates around 2006, with five studio albums including Sound & Fury (2024).
Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl, also called the Dirty Thirties, was a 1930s period of drought and dust storms on the Great Plains that drove farming families to migrate.
Dust Brothers
The Dust Brothers are the Los Angeles production duo Mike Simpson and John King, formed 1985, known for Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique, Beck's Odelay, and the Fight Club score; distinct from the British duo briefly using the same name.
Dust devil
A dust devil is a small, rapidly rotating whirlwind made visible by dust, formed by surface heating on hot, dry afternoons rather than by a storm cloud.
Dust explosion
A dust explosion, also called a combustible dust explosion, is the rapid combustion of a suspended dust cloud, which destroys equipment and buildings in industries that handle powders.
Dust in early galaxies
Dust in early galaxies is the solid grains formed in galaxies within roughly the first billion years of cosmic history, seen by ALMA at redshifts as high as 7.
Dust in fusion plasmas
Dust in fusion plasmas is particulate matter up to about 1 mm that forms in magnetic confinement devices, studied chiefly as a safety inventory for ITER.
Dust in the Wind
Dust in the Wind is a 1977 Kansas ballad by Kerry Livgren, born from a Travis-picking exercise; released January 1978, it peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and is 3× Platinum.
Dust in the Wind (1986 film)
Dust in the Wind (戀戀風塵), 1986 Taiwanese drama by Hou Hsiao-hsien, written by Wu Nien-jen and Chu Tien-wen; childhood sweethearts leave a declining mining town for Taipei; based on Wu's first love.
Dust mite allergy
Dust mite allergy, also called dust allergy, is a hypersensitivity to proteins from house dust mites in bedding and carpeting, causing perennial rhinitis, asthma, or atopic dermatitis.
Dust storm
A dust storm, or sandstorm, is a weather event where strong winds lift sand and dust from dry soil, often forming a miles-long wall of dust.
Dust-obscured galaxy
A dust-obscured galaxy is a galaxy whose interstellar dust absorbs starlight and re-emits it in the infrared, hiding it from optical surveys; possibly half of early star formation was obscured.
Dust-obscured star formation in submillimeter galaxies
Dust-obscured star formation in submillimeter galaxies is the process by which intensely star-forming high-redshift galaxies hide stellar birth behind dust, making submillimeter galaxies bright at submillimeter wavelengths while faint optically.
Dust-to-gas ratio
The dust-to-gas ratio is the mass of interstellar dust divided by the mass of gas in a region or galaxy, about 1 percent in the Milky Way.
DUSt3R and VGGT (feedforward geometry)
DUSt3R and VGGT are transformer models in 3D computer vision that predict camera parameters, depth maps, and point maps from uncalibrated images in a single pass.
Dustborn
Dustborn is a 2024 single-player story-driven action-adventure game by Red Thread Games, published by Quantic Dream, about Pax, a Vox-wielding Anomal leading a punk-band-cover crew across an alternate divided America.
Duster
Duster is a 2025 HBO Max crime drama co-created by J.J. Abrams and LaToya Morgan, set in the 1970s Southwest, starring Josh Holloway and Rachel Hilson; eight episodes, 92% on Rotten Tomatoes, canceled after one season in July 2025.
Duster (clothing)
Duster (clothing), also called duster coat: a long, loose, lightweight overcoat protecting clothes from dust during train and early automobile travel, typically linen in plain tan shades, later a housecoat, oilskin drover coat, or fashion item.
Dustheads
Dustheads is a large 1982 painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat depicting two brightly colored figures against intense blackness, referring to users of the drug PCP; its 2013 sale for $48,843,750 set an auction record for the artist.
Dustin Brown (ice hockey)
Dustin Brown is a retired American ice hockey right winger who played 18 seasons with the Los Angeles Kings, captaining them to Stanley Cups in 2012 and 2014.
Dustin Brown (tennis)
Dustin Brown, German-Jamaican tennis player nicknamed Dreddy, born 1984 in Celle; beat Rafael Nadal at Halle 2014 and Wimbledon 2015, career-high No. 64, serve-and-volley stylist.
Dustin Burrows
Dustin Burrows is an American Republican politician who has represented Texas House District 83 in Lubbock since 2014 and became the 77th Speaker of the Texas House in January 2025.
Dustin Byfuglien
Dustin Byfuglien, born 1985 in Roseau, Minnesota, is a retired NHL defenseman (6'5", 260 lb) who won the 2010 Stanley Cup with Chicago as a converted forward, the first Black US-born player to do so, then starred for the Winnipeg Jets on defense.
Dustin Clausen
Dustin Clausen is an American mathematician known for algebraic K-theory and for developing condensed mathematics with Peter Scholze; he has been a permanent professor at IHES since 2023.
Dustin Diamond
Dustin Diamond (1977-2021), American actor, played Samuel 'Screech' Powers across the Saved by the Bell franchise from Good Morning, Miss Bliss to The New Class; died of stage 4 small-cell carcinoma at 44.
Dustin Harris
Dustin Harris (Dustin Alexander Harris), born 1999, Tampa, is an MLB left fielder/first baseman for the San Diego Padres; drafted by Oakland in 2019, traded to Texas in the Mike Minor deal, debuted 2024.
Dustin Henderson
Dustin Henderson, played by Gaten Matarazzo, is the bard and science nerd of the Party in Stranger Things; known for cleidocranial dysplasia, Dart, Steve's friendship, Eddie's death, and a valedictorian finale.
Dustin Higgs
Dustin John Higgs, American federal death row inmate convicted of the 1996 kidnapping and murders of Tanji Jackson, Tamika Black, and Mishann Chinn in Maryland; received nine death sentences and was executed January 16, 2021, the last Trump-era federal execution.
Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Hoffman (born August 8, 1937, Los Angeles) is an American actor and two-time Oscar winner whose star turn in The Graduate (1967) redefined the Hollywood leading man; known for Midnight Cowboy, Tootsie, and Rain Man.