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Nusano, Inc.
Nusano, Inc. is an American radioisotope production company with a patented ion-source and linear-accelerator platform in West Valley City, Utah, making medical and industrial isotopes like lutetium-177 and actinium-225.
Nusantara (city)
Nusantara, also known as Ibu Kota Nusantara (IKN), is Indonesia's new national capital, built from 2022 in East Kalimantan on Borneo to replace Jakarta as the seat of government.
Nusantara Regas Satu Terminal
Nusantara Regas Satu Terminal is a floating storage and regasification terminal in Jakarta Bay, Indonesia, built around a converted LNG carrier and operating since 2012 as the country's first LNG receiving terminal.
Nusayba bint Ka'b
Nusayba bint Ka'b (نسيبة بنت كعب), known as Umm Umara, was a Companion of Muhammad of the Khazraj tribe who defended him at the battle of Uhud.
Nusaybin
Nusaybin (Nisêbîn; ancient Nisibis) is a border town in Mardin Province, Turkey, opposite Qamishli, Syria. Ancient Roman provincial capital and Church of the East school center; its Syria crossing is closed.
NuScale Power
NuScale Power is an Oregon-based company that makes small modular reactors; in 2020 its design became the first SMR approved by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
nuScenes
nuScenes is a public, large-scale autonomous driving dataset developed by Motional, released in full in March 2019 with 1,000 annotated scenes collected in Boston and Singapore.
Nuseirat rescue and massacre
The Nuseirat rescue and massacre (Operation Arnon) was the 8 June 2024 Israeli daytime raid freeing four Nova festival hostages in central Gaza, in which Gaza's Health Ministry reported 274 Palestinians killed and 698 injured, figures Israel disputed.
Nushrratt Bharuccha
Nushrratt Bharuccha (Nushrat Bharucha), born 1985 in Mumbai, is a Hindi film actress known for Pyaar Ka Punchnama, Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety, and the horror film Chhorii (2021), for which she won a Filmfare Critics Choice award.
Nüshu
Nüshu (女书, "women's writing") is a syllabic script created and used exclusively by women in Jiangyong County, Hunan, China; rediscovered in 1982, it was then nearly extinct.
Nusinersen
Nusinersen (Spinraza) is an SMN2-directed antisense oligonucleotide for 5q spinal muscular atrophy, given by intrathecal injection every four months; first FDA-approved SMA drug (December 2016), EU approval May 2017, marketed by Biogen.
Nusku Patera
Nusku Patera is a roughly 128-km-wide nested volcanic patera at 65 degrees south on Jupiter's moon Io, named for the Assyrian fire god and showing new red-ring volcanic changes observed by Juno in 2024.
Nusli Wadia
Nusli Wadia, born 1944, is an Indian Parsi industrialist who chairs the Wadia Group, known for his 1980s feud with Reliance and his 2016 expulsion from Tata companies.
Nusplingen Limestone
Nusplingen Limestone (Nusplinger Plattenkalk), Upper Jurassic laminated limestone and fossil Lagerstätte on the Westerberg, Swabian Alb, Germany; Late Kimmeridgian, ~150 Ma, deep lagoon, over 8,000 exceptionally preserved fossils, older and richer than Solnhofen.
Nusrat Bhutto (نصرت بھٹو)
Nusrat Bhutto (نصرت بھٹو), also Begum Nusrat Bhutto, Madr-e-Jamhooriyat, was First Lady of Pakistan 1971–1977, PPP leader after Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's execution, MRD co-founder, and minister under Benazir Bhutto; died Dubai 2011.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (نصرت فتح علی خان)
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (نصرت فتح علی خان), 1948-1997, Pakistani qawwali master, Shahen-shah-e-qawwali, from a 600-year family of qawwals; led his party from 1971, reached global audiences via WOMAD and Peter Gabriel's Real World, collaborated with Michael Brook and Eddie Vedder.
Nusrat J. Choudhury
Nusrat J. Choudhury, also known as Nusrat Jahan Choudhury, is an American district judge for the Eastern District of New York, appointed by President Biden in 2023.
Nusrat Jahan
Nusrat Jahan (নুসরাত জাহান), born 1990 in Kolkata, is an Indian Bengali film actress, model, and Trinamool Congress politician who was elected MP from Basirhat in 2019; distinct from murder victim Nusrat Jahan Rafi and researcher Nusrat Jahan Lia.
Nusrat Shah
Nusrat Shah (نصرت شاه), eldest son and successor of Alauddin Husain Shah, ruled Bengal as sultan from 1519 to 1532, expanding into Tirhut and presiding over the sultanate's golden age.
Nusrati
Nusrati (نصرتی), born Muhammad Nusrat, was a 17th-century Dakhni Urdu poet and poet laureate of Bijapur, known for the mathnawis Gulshan-i 'Ishq, Ali-nama, and Ta'rikh-i Iskandari.
Nuss procedure
The Nuss procedure, or MIRPE, is a minimally invasive surgery for pectus excavatum that pushes the sunken chest outward with a bar placed under the sternum.
Nusselt number
The Nusselt number (Nu) is a dimensionless number in heat transfer defined as Nu = hL/k, the ratio of convective to conductive heat transfer across the same length scale.
Nussloch
Nussloch (Nußloch), a municipality of about 10,700 in the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis near Heidelberg, first documented 766 in the Lorscher Codex; lead-zinc-silver mining from Roman times to 1954 and limestone quarries shaped its history.
NuSTAR
NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array) is a NASA Small Explorer X-ray space telescope launched in 2012 and the first in orbit to focus high-energy X-rays for imaging.
NuStar Energy
NuStar Energy was an American midstream energy partnership headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, operating about 9,490 miles of pipeline for petroleum products, renewable fuels, and ammonia.
Nut (crater on Ganymede)
Nut is a 90-km-wide IAU-named impact crater on Ganymede at 54.21S, 269.20W, approved 1979 for the Egyptian sky goddess; the 2000 name Wadjet refers to the same crater.
Nut (food)
Nut (food): edible hard-shelled kernels including true botanical nuts, drupes, and seeds such as almonds, walnuts, pistachios, and peanuts. Eaten since prehistoric times; linked to lower cardiovascular and all-cause mortality; main hazard is aflatoxin.
Nut (fruit)
A nut is, in strict botany, a dry, one-seeded fruit with a hard pericarp that does not open at maturity, though in cooking the word covers almost any edible oily kernel in a shell.
Nut (goddess)
Nut (pronounced "newt"), ancient Egyptian sky goddess of the Heliopolitan Ennead: daughter of Shu and Tefnut, consort of Geb, mother of Osiris, Isis, Seth, and Nephthys, arched over the earth and linked by recent astronomical research to the Milky Way.
Nut (hardware)
A nut, also called a hex nut, is a usually hexagonal or square metal fastener with internal threads that mate with a bolt's threads to clamp parts together.