All articles starting with N

Novichok (Новичок)

Novichok (Новичок, "newcomer") is a group of organophosphorus nerve agents developed in a secret Soviet program, used in the 2018 Salisbury poisonings in England and against Alexei Navalny in 2020.

The Novikov conjecture is a conjecture in geometric topology, formulated by Sergei Novikov around 1970, stating that the higher signatures of closed oriented manifolds are invariant under oriented homotopy equivalence.

Novikov self-consistency principle

The Novikov self-consistency principle, also called the self-consistency principle, states that time travel via closed timelike curves allows only self-consistent events, giving paradoxical ones probability zero.

Novint Falcon

The Novint Falcon is a three-degree-of-freedom desktop haptic device by Novint Technologies of Albuquerque, released in 2007 as a game controller that lets users feel virtual objects.

Noviodunum

Noviodunum, Celtic for "new fort": several Roman towns, chiefly the Lower Danube fortress at Isaccea, Romania, headquarters of the Classis Flavia Moesica, later a Byzantine-medieval center; also Nyon, Neviodunum, and Jublains.

NoViolet Bulawayo

NoViolet Bulawayo, pen name of Elizabeth Zandile Tshele (born 1981), is a Zimbabwean novelist twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, for We Need New Names and Glory.

Noviomagus (United Kingdom)

Noviomagus in Britain: Latin name of Roman Chichester (Noviomagus Reginorum), civitas capital of the Regni, and of Noviomagus Cantiacorum, a Kent road-station on the Antonine Itinerary, variously placed at Crayford, West Wickham, or Beddington.

Noviomagus Treverorum

Noviomagus Treverorum was a Roman road station and market at modern Neumagen on the Moselle in Germany, destroyed around 275 AD and later rebuilt as a fort.

Novirhabdovirus piscine

Novirhabdovirus piscine is the ICTV virus species for viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus (VHSV), a fish rhabdovirus in genus Novirhabdovirus with an NV gene, over 80 host species, four genotypes, and Great Lakes genotype IVb.

Novísima poesía cubana

Novísima poesía cubana is a 1962 Cuban poetry anthology published in Havana by the El Puente group led by José Mario Rodríguez, whose suppression made it a landmark of cultural policy.

Novísimos

The novísimos, also called the Generación del 68 or Generación del 70, are Spanish poets named from José María Castellet's 1970 anthology of nine poets.

Novitiate (film)

Novitiate (2017) is Maggie Betts' narrative feature debut drama, starring Margaret Qualley, Melissa Leo, and Julianne Nicholson, about a young postulant in 1964 Tennessee whose faith is shaken by Vatican II reforms; Sundance premiere, Sony Pictures Classics, 85% Tomatometer.

Novo Amor

Novo Amor is the indie-folk project of Welsh multi-instrumentalist Ali John Meredith-Lacey (born 1991), Portuguese for 'new love'. Albums: Birthplace (2018), Cannot Be, Whatsoever (2020), Collapse List (2024); known for falsetto, found-sound production, Bon Iver comparisons.

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Novo Hamburgo

Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande do Sul municipality in the Porto Alegre metropolitan region and Sinos Valley; German-immigrant founded, center of Brazil's leather-footwear industry, Trensurb terminus, 227,646 residents (2022).

Novo Mesto

Novo Mesto, Slovenia: city on the Krka River in Dolenjska, founded 1365 by Rudolf IV as Rudolfswert; seat of a city municipality of 38,678 (2026), home to Krka pharmaceuticals and the Revoz Renault plant.

Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk, Danish pharma founded 1923, HQ Bagsværd; maker of semaglutide drugs Ozempic and Wegovy; 1989 merger of Novo and Nordisk; 2025 net profit DKK 102.4bn; CEO Mike Doustdar; rebranded 'Novo' 2026.

Novo-Angren power station

Novo-Angren power station, also known as Yangi Angren IES, is a coal- and gas-fired power station of 2,100 MW in the Tashkent Region of Uzbekistan, one of two in the country that burn coal.

Novo-Irkutsk power station

The Novo-Irkutsk power station (Ново-Иркутская ТЭЦ) is a coal-fired combined heat and power plant in southwest Irkutsk, Russia, supplying most of the city's heat since 1975.

Novo-Urengoyskoye gas field

Novo-Urengoyskoye (Ново-Уренгойское) is an operating onshore oil and gas field in western Siberia's Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, part of the greater Urengoyskoye field and developed by Rosneft's Rospan International.

Novo-Yelkhovskoye Oil Field

Novo-Yelkhovskoye oil field, also called the Aktaš-Novo-Yelkhovskoye field, is an oil field in Tatarstan, Russia, second largest in the republic by reserves, developed by Tatneft since 1961 with peak output in 1974.

Novoazovsk Raion

Novoazovsk Raion (Новоазовський район) was a district of Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Novoazovsk on the Azov Sea; created 1923, renamed 1958, abolished 2020 into Kalmiuske Raion, and under Russian occupation since 2014.

Novobiocin

Novobiocin is an aminocoumarin antibiotic produced by Streptomyces niveus that inhibits the ATPase activity of DNA gyrase, used mainly against penicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and later withdrawn.

Novocaine (2025 film)

Novocaine is a 2025 Paramount action comedy directed by Dan Berk and Robert Olsen, starring Jack Quaid as Nathan Caine, a CIPA-afflicted assistant bank manager who rescues Amber Midthunder's Sherry during a bank robbery; it earned $34 million worldwide.

Novocherkasskaya GRES power station

Novocherkasskaya GRES is a coal-fired power station of about 2,258 MW near Novocherkassk in Rostov Region, Russia, opened in 1965 and owned by Gazprom subsidiary OGK-2.

Novodevichy Cemetery (Новодевичье кладбище)

Novodevichy Cemetery (Новодевичье кладбище), Moscow's famous cemetery beside the Novodevichy Convent, opened in 1904 on land allotted in 1898; burial place of about 26,000 Russian cultural, scientific, and political figures, UNESCO-listed since 2004.

Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie

Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, commonly abbreviated NLO, is a Russian scholarly journal of literary theory, history, criticism, and bibliography founded by Irina Prokhorova in 1992 as the first independent philological journal in post-Soviet Russia.

NovoGen MMX Bioprinter

The NovoGen MMX Bioprinter is an extrusion-based 3D bioprinter developed by Organovo with Invetech, completed in 2009, that deposits cells and hydrogels to build living tissues.

Novogene (北京诺禾致源科技股份有限公司) (诺禾致源)

Novogene (诺禾致源) is a Beijing genomics company founded by Li Ruiqiang in 2011 that sells high-throughput DNA sequencing and bioinformatics services to research institutions and pharmaceutical companies.