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Nobutaka Taguchi
Nobutaka Taguchi (田口信教), Japanese breaststroke swimmer born 1951 in Ehime; won 1972 Munich Olympic 100 m breaststroke gold with world records 1:05.13 and 1:04.94, plus 200 m bronze; ISHOF 1987.
Nobuyo Maeda
Nobuyo Maeda (前田伸代) is a Japanese geneticist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who created the apolipoprotein E knockout mouse, a leading model of atherosclerosis.
Nobuyoshi Araki
Nobuyoshi Araki, born in Tokyo in 1940, is a Japanese photographer known for "I-photography," erotic imagery, and street pictures, with more than 500 published books.
Nobuyuki Aihara
Nobuyuki Aihara (相原 信行), Japanese artistic gymnast (1934-2013) from Takasaki, Gunma. Floor exercise gold and team gold at Rome 1960; floor and team silver at Melbourne 1956; 1962 world floor champion.
Nobuyuki Imoto
Nobuyuki Imoto (井元 信之) is a Japanese quantum information and quantum optics scientist, a Senior Professor at The University of Tokyo and Professor Emeritus of Osaka University.
NoCap
NoCap, born Kobe Vidal Crawford in 1998, is a rapper from Mobile, Alabama whose 2022 debut album Mr. Crawford reached number 8 on the Billboard 200.
Nocardia
Nocardia, genus of gram-positive aerobic branching weakly acid-fast soil bacteria (aerobic actinomycetes) causing nocardiosis; over 40 clinically relevant species, opportunistic lung, brain, and skin infection in immunocompromised people.
Nocardia asteroides
Nocardia asteroides (Cladothrix asteroides, Eppinger 1891) is the type species of the genus Nocardia, a filamentous, partially acid-fast soil bacterium (type strain ATCC 19247) once blamed for most nocardiosis but now rarely isolated sensu stricto.
Nocardiopsis
Nocardiopsis is a genus of Gram-positive actinomycete bacteria established in 1976, whose branching mycelium and spore chains thrive in saline, alkaline, hot, cold, and dry environments.
Nocardiosis
Nocardiosis, infection by soil-dwelling Nocardia bacteria (including N. farcinica, N. brasiliensis), affects lungs, brain, and skin, mainly in immunocompromised people, treated with months of antibiotics such as trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole.
NOCARH syndrome
NOCARH syndrome, first described in 2019, is a rare autoinflammatory disease caused by CDC42 gene mutations, marked by neonatal low blood counts, painful rash, and life-threatening HLH episodes.
Nocebo
Nocebo, or the nocebo effect, is the evil twin of the placebo effect: adverse symptoms arising from negative expectations, verbal suggestion, and conditioning rather than drug action. Coined by W P Kennedy in 1961; medium overall effect size g=0.522.
Nocebo (film)
Nocebo (2022) is a Filipino-Irish supernatural horror-thriller directed by Lorcan Finnegan, starring Eva Green, Mark Strong, and Chai Fonacier, about a fashion designer's mysterious illness and her caregiver's revenge.
Noche de Los Grandes
Noche de Los Grandes, a two-week WWE/AAA TV special (May 30 and June 6, 2026) at Arena Monterrey, Mexico; headlined by El Grande Americano (Ludwig Kaiser) beating the Original El Grande Americano (Chad Gable) in a mask vs. mask match, with three title changes.
Noche Triste
The Noche Triste, or Sad Night, was the night of 30 June to 1 July 1520, when Mexica forces drove Hernán Cortés out of Tenochtitlan.
Nochnye Snaipery
Nochnye Snaipery (Ночные снайперы, Night Snipers) is a Russian rock band founded in 1993 in St. Petersburg by Diana Arbenina and Svetlana Surganova, known for the hit «31-я весна».
Nochten Coal Mine
Nochten Coal Mine (German: Tagebau Nochten) is a large lignite opencast mine in Saxony, eastern Germany, operated by LEAG since 1973 and the main supplier of the Boxberg power plant.
Nociceptin
Nociceptin, also called orphanin FQ, is a 17-amino-acid neuropeptide discovered in 1995 that activates the NOP receptor, the fourth opioid receptor, regulating pain, mood, and reward.
Nociception
Nociception, also called noxious-stimulus encoding, is the neural process by which nociceptors detect damaging mechanical, thermal, or chemical stimuli; distinct from pain, it spans transduction, transmission, modulation, and perception across animal species.
Nociceptor
A nociceptor, also called a pain receptor, is a sensory neuron that responds to noxious, tissue-damaging stimuli, triggering pain signals in the spinal cord and brain.
Nocodazole
Nocodazole is a synthetic benzimidazole compound that binds tubulin at the colchicine site and depolymerizes microtubules, widely used to arrest cells in mitosis in laboratory research.
Noctilio
Noctilio, the bulldog bats, is a Neotropical bat genus (family Noctilionidae) with two species, the fishing N. leporinus and insect-eating N. albiventris, known for cheek pouches, long legs, and extremely loud echolocation above 140 dB SPL.
Noctiluca scintillans
Noctiluca scintillans, sea sparkle, a large bioluminescent heterotrophic dinoflagellate with red and green forms; nontoxic blooms that harm fisheries via hypoxia and ammonia, shifting poleward with ocean warming.
Noctilucent cloud
Noctilucent clouds, also called polar mesospheric clouds, are the highest clouds on Earth, thin ice clouds near the mesopause that shine at night in summer.
Noctis Fossae
Noctis Fossae is a 712.73-km IAU-approved graben system on Mars at 2.69 S, 261.15 E, north of Noctis Labyrinthus, hosting an explosive volcanic field of 25 scoria cones younger than 200 Ma.
Noctis Labyrinthus
Noctis Labyrinthus, the Labyrinth of the Night, is a ~1200 km maze of graben, pits, and steep-walled valleys on Mars at the western end of Valles Marineris, formed by Tharsis-driven crustal extension and later collapse, with hydrated sulfate and clay minerals.
Noctis Lucis Caelum
Noctis Lucis Caelum (ノクティス・ルシス・チェラム) is the protagonist of Final Fantasy XV, prince and 114th heir of Lucis, son of King Regis, voiced by Tatsuhisa Suzuki, designed by Tetsuya Nomura, originally from Versus XIII.
Noctuidae
Noctuidae, owlet moths or noctuid moths (Latreille, 1809), a family of Noctuoidea moths with about 11,772 trifine species, tympanal bat-detecting ears at the hind wing bases, and sister-group status to Euteliidae.
Nocturama (2016 film)
Nocturama, originally titled Paris est une fête, is Bertrand Bonello's 2016 French-German-Belgian thriller about young people bombing Paris and hiding overnight in a department store; released 31 August 2016, 130 minutes, starring Finnegan Oldfield.
Nocturama (album)
Nocturama is the twelfth studio album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, released February 2003 on Anti-/Epitaph and Mute. Produced by Nick Launay in a week in Melbourne with no overdubs, its last Bad Seeds album with Blixa Bargeld, closing with the 14:45 "Babe, I'm on Fire," and scored 73 on Metacritic.