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Nosema bombi
Nosema bombi, now Vairimorpha bombi, is an obligate intracellular microsporidian parasite of bumble bees described in 1914, infecting over 50 Bombus species, severely reducing colony fitness, and linked to commercial hive spillover and North American bumble bee declines.
Nosema bombycis
Nosema bombycis is a single-celled microsporidian parasite of the domesticated silkworm that causes pébrine, a disease that collapsed the European silk industry in the mid-19th century.
Nosema ceranae
Nosema ceranae (now often Vairimorpha ceranae) is a microsporidian gut parasite of honey bees, described from Apis cerana in China in 1996, that jumped to Apis mellifera and is now the predominant Nosema species worldwide, with a 96-hour life cycle in midgut epithelial cells.
Nosferatu
Nosferatu (Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens) is F.W. Murnau's 1922 German silent horror film, an unauthorized Dracula adaptation starring Max Schreck as Count Orlok, nearly destroyed by Florence Stoker's copyright suit but surviving as the foundational vampire film.
Nosferatu (2023 film)
Nosferatu (2023), also listed as Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, is David Lee Fisher's remake of Murnau's 1922 silent classic, starring Doug Jones as Count Orlok with Sarah Carter and Emrhys Cooper; distinct from Eggers's 2024 remake.
Nosferatu (2024 film)
Nosferatu (2024) is Robert Eggers' gothic horror remake of Murnau's 1922 silent classic, starring Bill Skarsgård as Count Orlok and Lily-Rose Depp as Ellen Hutter; released December 25, 2024 by Focus Features, it grossed $181,979,112 worldwide.
Nosferatu (word)
Nosferatu: a word for "vampire" first printed in Emily Gerard's 1885 "Transylvanian Superstitions", used by Stoker in Dracula and popularized by Murnau's 1922 film; not found in Romanian dictionaries, with disputed etymology (nesuferit, Necuratu, nosophoros).
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Nosferatu the Vampyre (Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht) is Werner Herzog's 1979 West German-French horror remake of Murnau's 1922 Nosferatu, starring Klaus Kinski as Dracula, Isabelle Adjani, and Bruno Ganz; it won Cannes' FIPRESCI Prize.
Noshir Gowadia
Noshir Sheriarji Gowadia, born 1944, is the Indian-born American engineer who helped design the B-2 bomber's infrared-suppression propulsion and was convicted in 2010 of espionage for selling classified stealth technology to China, receiving 32 years.
Noshiro power station
Noshiro power station (能代火力発電所, Noshiro Thermal Power Station) is a 1,800 MW coal-fired power station in Noshiro, Akita Prefecture, Japan, owned by Tohoku Electric Power.
NOSIC
NOSIC is a conserved protein domain, named as the central domain of Nop56/SIK1-like proteins, found in spliceosome and box C/D snoRNP components such as Prp31, Nop56, and Nop58.
Nosocice
Nosocice (Nosswitz), a district of Głogów, Poland, about 3 km east of the city center, known for its Przeworsk culture cemetery excavated in 1913 by Gerhard Bersu and re-studied in a 2020 monograph.
Nosotros
Nosotros was a monthly cultural magazine published in Buenos Aires between 1907 and 1943, founded by Roberto Giusti and Alfredo Bianchi, with contributors including Borges and Rubén Darío.
Nosotros los Pobres
Nosotros los Pobres is a 1947 Mexican film directed by Ismael Rodríguez and starring Pedro Infante. It is a landmark of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.
NoSQL
NoSQL, or "not only SQL," is an umbrella term for non-relational databases that store data as documents, key-value pairs, wide columns, or graphs, and typically scale horizontally across many servers.
Nosrat Oil Field
Nosrat (نصرت) is a shared offshore oil field in the Persian Gulf about 35 km southeast of Iran's Sirri Island, an extension of Dubai's Fateh field discovered in 1981.
Nosratola D. Vaziri
Nosratola D. Vaziri is an American nephrologist at UC Irvine who led its nephrology division for 34 years and studies oxidative stress and gut microbes in kidney disease.
Nossa Senhora do Socorro
Nossa Senhora do Socorro, Sergipe municipality in the Aracaju metropolitan region, Brazil's Northeast; second most populous city of Sergipe (192,330 in 2022 census, 205,611 estimated 2026), dormitory city of Aracaju, 155.018 km², IBGE code 2804805.
Nostalghia (Ностальгия)
Nostalghia (Ностальгия), also released as Nostalgia, is Andrei Tarkovsky's 1983 Italy–Soviet drama about a homesick Russian writer in Italy; his first film made outside the USSR, it won Cannes prizes in 1983.
Nostalgia
Nostalgia: sentimental longing for one's past; once a 1688 medical diagnosis of homesickness coined by Johannes Hofer from Greek nostos and algos, now studied as a predominantly positive, bittersweet emotion with well-being benefits.
Nostalgia Critic
Nostalgia Critic, also called The Nostalgia Critic, is a Doug Walker comedy web series reviewing 1980s and 1990s films with exaggerated rage; running since 2007 on YouTube and Channel Awesome.
Nostalgia de la muerte
Nostalgia de la muerte is a 1938 book of poems by the Mexican writer Xavier Villaurrutia, his second poetry collection and the central work of his output.
Nostalgia, Ultra
nostalgia,ULTRA. is Frank Ocean's debut mixtape, self-released free on Tumblr on February 16, 2011 after Def Jam shelved him; it sampled Coldplay, MGMT, and the Eagles, whose legal threat canceled its official release.
Nostoc
Nostoc, a genus of filamentous nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria in the order Nostocales, forms heterocysts and symbioses with plants and fungi; Nostoc commune is edible but raises BMAA neurotoxin safety concerns.
Nostradamus
Nostradamus, born Michel de Nostredame (1503–1566), was a French physician and almanac-maker whose rhymed quatrains in Les Prophéties, published in 1555, made him famous as a seer.
nostraightanswer
nostraightanswer, formerly Kenji-B, is the artist name of Samuel Blakeslee, an American Vocaloid producer in Florida known as the voice provider of DEX and winner of the Miku Expo 2026 song contest.
Nostratic languages
Nostratic languages: a hypothetical Eurasian language macrofamily descending from Proto-Nostratic, coined by Holger Pedersen in 1903 and developed by Illich-Svitych and Dolgopolsky; includes Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic, and usually Kartvelian, Dravidian, and Afroasiatic; remains controversial.
Nostromo
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard, Joseph Conrad's 1904 novel set in fictional Costaguana, where the San Tome silver mine and a stolen treasure drive Sulaco's secession; also the Alien ship Nostromo.
Nostrum Oil and Gas PLC
Nostrum Oil and Gas PLC is a London-listed mixed-asset energy company formed in 2013, operating the Chinarevskoye gas-condensate field in north-western Kazakhstan with a 4.2-billion-cubic-meter processing hub.
Not Afraid
"Not Afraid" (Not Afraid) is a 2010 Eminem song, lead single of Recovery, produced by Boi-1da; it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, peaked at No. 5 in the UK, and declares his sobriety.