All articles starting with F

Fully drawn yarn

Fully drawn yarn (FDY) is a synthetic filament yarn, usually polyester, spun and drawn in one continuous process so it can be woven or knitted directly.

Sep 29, 2026

Fully homomorphic encryption

Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) is a cryptographic method that lets anyone compute on encrypted data without decrypting it, first made practical by Craig Gentry in 2009.

Fully sharded data parallelism

Fully sharded data parallelism (FSDP) is a memory-saving distributed deep learning training method that shards a model's parameters, gradients, and optimizer states across GPU workers.

Fulmarus is a genus of two tubenosed seabirds, the Northern Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) of northern oceans and the Southern Fulmar (F. glacialoides) of the Southern Ocean; gull-like, stiff-winged, and key plastic-pollution biomonitors.

Sep 19, 2026

Fulminacci

Fulminacci is the stage name of Filippo Uttinacci, an Italian cantautore born in Rome in 1997, known for the songs "Santa Marinella" and "Stupida sfortuna" at Sanremo.

Fulminant viral hepatitis

Fulminant viral hepatitis is rapid, severe acute liver failure with encephalopathy developing within 8 weeks of jaundice, caused mainly by hepatitis B and also hepatitis A.

Fulong converter station

Fulong converter station (复龙换流站), located at Fulong in Sichuan Province, China, is the sending-end (rectifier) station of the Xiangjiaba–Shanghai ±800 kV UHVDC link, commissioned in 2010.

Fulranumab

Fulranumab (AMG 403, JNJ-42160443) is a human IgG2 monoclonal antibody neutralizing nerve growth factor, developed by Janssen and Amgen for osteoarthritis and chronic pain; it reached phase 3 but was discontinued in 2016 after joint-safety concerns and assay artifacts.

Fulton County, Georgia

Fulton County, Georgia: most populous of Georgia's 159 counties (1,066,710 in 2020), county seat Atlanta, created 1853 from DeKalb County, consolidated with Milton and Campbell in 1932, governed by a seven-member Board of Commissioners.

Fulton J. Sheen

Fulton J. Sheen, born Peter John Sheen, was an American Catholic bishop and broadcaster whose 1950s television series Life Is Worth Living won him an Emmy.

Fulton Mackay

Fulton Mackay (William Fulton Beith McKay, 1922–1987), Scottish actor from Paisley, RADA-trained, Citizens Theatre and RSC stage veteran, best known as Mr Mackay in Porridge with Ronnie Barker, also Local Hero, Fraggle Rock, Defence of the Realm.

Fulton Speech

The Fulton speech, "The Sinews of Peace" or Iron Curtain speech, delivered by Winston Churchill at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri on 5 March 1946 with Truman present, warned of an iron curtain dividing Europe and called for an Anglo-American special relationship.

Fulton surface-to-air recovery system

The Fulton surface-to-air recovery system, or Skyhook, retrieves people from the ground by aircraft without landing, used by the CIA and US military from 1958 to 1997.

Fulton's condition factor

Fulton's condition factor (K) is a fisheries science index of a fish's relative plumpness, calculated as weight divided by the cube of length and assuming isometric growth.

Sep 19, 2026

Fulu Miziki Kolektiv

Fulu Miziki Kolektiv, also known as Fulu Miziki, is a Kinshasa-based Congolese collective, assembled in 2003 by Pisko Crane, that plays Afro-futurist punk on instruments built from trash.

Fulvestrant

Fulvestrant, sold as Faslodex, is a steroidal drug that blocks and degrades the estrogen receptor, used for hormone receptor-positive advanced breast cancer in postmenopausal women.

Sep 29, 2026

Fulvestrant regimen

The fulvestrant regimen is a hormonal cancer treatment for hormone receptor-positive advanced breast cancer, in which fulvestrant 500 mg is injected monthly, alone or combined with the CDK4/6 inhibitor abemaciclib.

Fulvio Fantoni

Fulvio Fantoni (born 1963, Grosseto) is an Italian bridge player, partner of Claudio Nunes, winner of the 2002 World Pairs, 2005 Bermuda Bowl, and 2004/2008 Olympiads, later banned for cheating in 2016 and reinstated by CAS in 2018.

Oct 10, 2026

Fulvio Giulio della Corgna

Fulvio Giulio della Corgna (1517–1583) was an Italian cardinal and bishop of Perugia, a nephew of Pope Julius III who appointed him bishop at age 32 in 1550.

Fulvio Valbusa

Fulvio Valbusa (Bubu), born 1969 in Verona, is an Italian cross-country skier who won 4x10 km relay gold at Torino 2006 and silver at Nagano 1998 across five Olympics, with 23 World Cup podiums.

Fulvous whistling duck

The fulvous whistling duck, or fulvous tree duck (Dendrocygna bicolor), is a tawny whistling duck found in warm wetlands across the Americas, Africa, and South Asia.

Fulwell 73

Fulwell 73, also called Fulwell Entertainment, is a London-founded 2005 production company behind Carpool Karaoke, Sunderland 'Til I Die, The Kardashians, and Friends: The Reunion, now merged with SpringHill.

Fulzerasib (GFH925, IBI351)

Fulzerasib (GFH925, IBI351; Dupert, 达伯特) is an oral covalent KRAS G12C inhibitor from GenFleet/Innovent, approved by China's NMPA in August 2024 for previously treated advanced KRAS G12C-mutant NSCLC, with phase 2 ORR 49.1% and mPFS 9.7 months.

Fuman Oil and Gas Field

Fuman Oil and Gas Field is an ultra-deep oil and gas field in the Tarim Basin, Xinjiang, China, operated by PetroChina and producing from Ordovician carbonates below 6,000 m.

Fumarase

Fumarase (fumarate hydratase, EC 4.2.1.2, FH gene) is the TCA-cycle enzyme hydrating fumarate to L-malate; class I iron–sulfur and class II tetrameric forms exist, and FH loss causes fumarase deficiency and HLRCC kidney cancer.

Fumarase deficiency

Fumarase deficiency (fumarate hydratase deficiency, fumaric aciduria, FMRD) is a rare autosomal recessive Krebs cycle disorder from biallelic FH gene mutations, causing severe infantile encephalopathy, seizures, and developmental delay; carriers risk HLRCC tumors.

Fumarate

Fumarate is the dianion of fumaric acid, a four-carbon dicarboxylic acid whose carbon–carbon double bond has trans geometry, serving as a TCA cycle intermediate and signaling molecule.

Fumarate reductase, subunit D

Fumarate reductase subunit D (FrdD, frdD gene) is the ~13 kDa hydrophobic membrane-anchor subunit of the E. coli frdABCD quinol:fumarate reductase complex; with FrdC it forms the four-helix-bundle membrane domain and quinone-binding site of anaerobic respiration.

Fumaria

Fumaria (fumitories, Erdrauch) is a genus of about 46-54 annual Papaveraceae herbs from Europe to India, with spurred irregular flowers, one-seeded nutlets, isoquinoline alkaloids such as protopine, and traditional medicinal use in Ayurveda, Unani, and European herbal medicine.