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MIO: Memories in Orbit

MIO: Memories in Orbit is a 2026 metroidvania by French studio Douze Dixièmes, published by Focus Entertainment. Robot MIO explores the derelict spaceship Vessel using grappling-hook traversal; $19.99, Metacritic 83, day-one Game Pass.

Miocene

The Miocene is a geological epoch from 23.03 to 5.333 million years ago, the first epoch of the Neogene, when grasslands spread and the first apes appeared.

Miocene Climatic Optimum

The Miocene Climatic Optimum was a middle Miocene warm interval from about 16.9 to 14.7 million years ago, with global temperatures 3 to 4 °C warmer than today.

Miocene gastropod faunas

Miocene gastropod faunas are the fossil assemblages of marine snails in the Central Paratethys, recording a Langhian diversity hotspot of 698 species, then abrupt turnovers marking regional stage boundaries.

Miomir Kecmanović (Миомир Кецмановић)

Miomir Kecmanović (Миомир Кецмановић), Serbian tennis player born 1999 in Belgrade; former ITF junior world No. 1 (2016), two ATP titles (Kitzbühel 2020, Delray Beach 2025), career-high ATP No. 27 in January 2023, Serbian Davis Cup player.

Mion Mukaichi

Mion Mukaichi (向井地美音), born 1998, is a Japanese singer and former child actress who spent about thirteen years with the idol group AKB48.

Miopithecus

Miopithecus, the talapoins, a genus of two tiny West Central African guenon monkeys (M. talapoin, M. ogouensis), the smallest Old World monkeys, arboreal, water-associated, omnivorous, CITES Appendix II.

Miopithecus talapoin

Miopithecus talapoin, the southern or Angolan talapoin (Simia talapoin, Schreber 1774), is the smallest Old World monkey, a riparian dwarf guenon of Angola and DRC south of the Congo River, distinct from the northern M. ogouensis.

Miorița

Miorița (The Little Ewe Lamb) is a Romanian folk pastoral ballad in which a shepherd forewarned of murder accepts his fate, his death becoming a cosmic wedding.

Miou Tanaka

Miou Tanaka (田中美央, Tanaka Miō, born 1974) is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Kobe, Hyogo. Former Haiyuza stage actor, known as Captain Hotta in Godzilla Minus One and for voicing Hamura, Tendo, and Halfdan; distinct from the Niigata University nursing researcher of the same name.

MIP (complexity)

MIP is the complexity class of decision problems verifiable by a probabilistic polynomial-time verifier interacting with non-communicating provers, shown equal to NEXP by Babai, Fortnow, and Lund in 1991.

Mip Cleco Partners

MIP Cleco Partners L.P. is a Delaware limited partnership formed by Macquarie Infrastructure Partners III solely to acquire the Louisiana utility Cleco Corporation in 2016.

MIP-MPEG chewing gum polymer

MIP-MPEG (Rev-7/Rev7), maleated isoprenyl polymer with methoxy-polyethylene glycol, a Revolymer graft copolymer gum base additive for low-adhesion, removable chewing gum; FDA GRN 374 (2011) no questions, EFSA novel food opinion found safe.

MIP7 trial

MIP7 (EudraCT 2021-005993-24, NCT05622162) is an Italian phase III trial by ITEL Telecomunicazioni comparing 18F-JK-PSMA-7 PET/CT with 18F-fluorocholine PET/CT for detecting biochemical recurrence of prostate cancer, targeting a 20% higher detection rate in 106 patients.

MIPI CSI-2

MIPI CSI-2, the Camera Serial Interface 2, is a high-speed serial protocol defined by the MIPI Alliance in 2005 for transmitting image data from sensors to host processors.

Mipmap

Mipmap, also known as mipmapping or MIP mapping, is a sequence of progressively lower-resolution copies of a texture that reduces aliasing; Lance Williams introduced it in 1983.

Mipomersen

Mipomersen, brand name Kynamro, is an antisense oligonucleotide that blocks apoB synthesis, approved in the United States in 2013 for homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia and since discontinued.

MiPPAD trial

MiPPAD (Malaria in Pregnancy Preventive Alternative Drugs) trials: two randomized trials (2009–2014) in five sub-Saharan African countries testing mefloquine versus sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine as intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy, in 4,749 HIV-negative and 1,071 HIV-positive women.

MIPS architecture

MIPS, short for "microprocessor without interlocked pipeline stages", is a RISC instruction set architecture developed at Stanford and commercialized in 1985 with the R2000, the first commercial MIPS CPU.

MIPS Technologies

MIPS Technologies, originally MIPS Computer Systems, was an American semiconductor company founded in 1984 to commercialize the Stanford MIPS project, licensing MIPS processor cores to chip makers.

Miqdam ibn Dawud al-Ra'ini

Miqdam ibn Dawud al-Ra'ini was an Egyptian hadith transmitter and Maliki jurist who died in Ramadan 283 AH, praised as a jurist but criticized as a narrator.

Miqin Zhang

Miqin Zhang is a materials scientist at the University of Washington who develops iron oxide and graphene quantum dot nanoparticles for cancer diagnosis and therapy.

Miquel Coll

Miquel Coll is a Spanish structural biologist, a CSIC Research Professor at the Institut de Biologia Molecular de Barcelona, known for structures of DNA-drug complexes and ARF transcription factors.

Miquel Fluxà Rosselló

Miquel Fluxà Rosselló, also written Miguel Fluxá Rosselló, is a Spanish hotelier from Mallorca, executive chairman and controlling owner of Grupo Iberostar, ranked ninth among Spain's wealthiest people in 2025.

Miquel Salmerón

Miquel Salmerón is a Spanish-born surface physicist and Senior Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who developed ambient-pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and high-pressure microscopy for studying catalysts under real working conditions.

Miquita Oliver

Miquita Oliver (Miquita Billie Alexandra Oliver, born 1984) is an English TV and radio presenter, co-host of Channel 4's Popworld (2001–2006) with Simon Amstell, T4 presenter, and co-host with Lily Allen of the BBC Sounds podcast Miss Me?.

Mir (Мир)

Mir (Мир) was a Soviet and later Russian modular space station in orbit from 1986 to 2001, the first modular station and host to 125 visitors.

Mir Abdul Hussain Sangi

Mir Abdul Hussain Sangi (مير عبدالحسين سانگي) was a Sindhi poet and prose writer of the Talpur dynasty who founded the Sindhi ghazal by fusing Persian conventions with Sindhi idiom.

Mir Ali Tabrizi

Mir Ali Tabrizi (میرعلی تبریزی), full name Ali ibn Hasan, was a Persian calligrapher active in Tabriz around 1370–1410 under the Jalayirid sultan Ahmad, credited with inventing the nasta'liq script.

Mir Amman

Mir Amman (میر امن), or Mir Amman Dehlavi, was an Urdu prose writer from Delhi who worked at Fort William College; his Bagh-o-Bahar became a foundational text of Urdu prose.