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Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm
Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm (ナルティメットストーム) is a 2008 CyberConnect2 fighting game for PS3, first of the Storm series (30M+ units sold), with single-button combat, 25 characters, and no online play.
Narva
Narva, Estonia's third-largest city (51,017 in 2026), on the Narva River at the EU–Russia border facing Ivangorod; Russian-speaking majority, baroque old town destroyed 1944, Kreenholm mill, vehicle border closed since 2024.
Narva scenario
The Narva scenario is a hypothesized limited Russian seizure of Narva, Estonia's Russian-speaking border city, designed to test NATO's Article 5 response without a full-scale invasion; analyzed by ISW, Belfer, and NATO planners as a fait accompli risk.
Narváez expedition
The Narváez expedition (Expedición de Narváez) was a Spanish venture that sailed in 1527 to conquer Florida's Gulf coast; only 4 of about 600 men survived.
Narval (supercomputer)
Narval is a Canadian supercomputer operated by Calcul Québec at the École de technologie supérieure in Montreal, announced in December 2021 for academic research across Canada.
Narvar
Narvar is a privately held American software company, founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, that provides a post-purchase customer experience platform for retailers.
Narwal
Narwal (云鲸智能) is a Chinese home-robotics company founded in Shenzhen in 2016 by Zhang Junbin, known for robot vacuums with self-cleaning mop stations and a 2025 Hong Kong IPO preparation.
Narwal Robotics (云鲸智能)
Narwal Robotics (云鲸智能) is a Chinese home-robotics company founded in 2016. It is known for its robot vacuum-mops with automatic mop washing and reported 130% revenue growth in 2024.
Narwhal
The narwhal (Monodon monoceros), also called the sea unicorn, is an Arctic toothed whale whose males usually grow a spiraled tusk up to 9.8 feet long.
NARX model
The NARX model (Nonlinear AutoRegressive with eXogenous inputs) predicts a time series from its own past values and past external input signals, using a nonlinear function fitted to data.
Naryn
Naryn (Нарын), river in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, major tributary of the Syr Darya; about 600 km long, meltwater-fed, and the site of the 2870 MW Naryn hydropower cascade including Toktogul.
Naryshkin Baroque
Naryshkin Baroque (Нарышкинское барокко), also called Moscow Baroque, is a Russian architectural style of the 1690s and early 1700s combining Old Russian building traditions with European Baroque techniques.
Nas
Nas (Nasir Jones), Queensbridge, New York rapper; debut Illmatic (1994) is widely called the greatest rap album; It Was Written hit No. 1; famous Jay-Z feud resolved in 2005; first Grammy 2021 for King's Disease.
NAS Award in Chemical Sciences
The NAS Award in Chemical Sciences is an annual National Academy of Sciences award recognizing creative work in chemistry, first given to Linus Pauling in 1979.
Nas Daily
Nas Daily is the one-minute daily video brand of Nuseir Yassin, a Palestinian-Israeli Harvard graduate who posted 1,000 videos in 1,000 days from April 2016 and built Nas Company, spanning Nas Studios, Nas Academy, Nas.com, Nas House, and 1000 Media.
Nas discography
Nas discography: catalog of Queens rapper Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, from Illmatic (1994) to Light-Years (2025), about 20 studio albums plus the Firm, Distant Relatives, and Hit-Boy era.
NAS membership in the physical sciences and mathematics
NAS membership in the physical sciences and mathematics covers mathematicians, physicists, astronomers, chemists, and earth scientists elected to the National Academy of Sciences, which elects 120 members annually.
NASA
NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, is the United States' civilian space agency, created in 1958 and known for the 1969 Apollo Moon landing.
NASA Ames Research Center
NASA Ames Research Center is a research and development center of NASA at Moffett Field in California's Silicon Valley, founded in 1939 as a NACA laboratory.
NASA Astronaut Corps
The NASA Astronaut Corps, organized as the Astronaut Office at Johnson Space Center in Houston, is the cadre of flight-qualified astronauts employed by NASA since 1959.
NASA Astronaut Group 2
NASA Astronaut Group 2, known as the New Nine or Next Nine, was NASA's second astronaut class, announced in September 1962, including Neil Armstrong and John Young.
NASA Astronaut Group 24
NASA Astronaut Group 24 is the 2025 astronaut candidate class of NASA, ten scientists, engineers, and test pilots chosen from more than 8,000 applicants, the first class in which women outnumbered men.
NASA Astronaut Group 3
NASA Astronaut Group 3, known as "The Fourteen," was the third class of astronauts selected by NASA in 1963 to fly the Gemini and Apollo missions.
NASA Astronaut Group 4
NASA Astronaut Group 4 was the first group of scientist-astronauts selected by NASA, announced in June 1965; its six members held doctorates in science, medicine, or engineering.
NASA Centennial Challenges
NASA Centennial Challenges is NASA's flagship program of public prize competitions, begun in 2005 and managed from Marshall Space Flight Center, awarding over $24 million to citizen solvers.
NASA Clean Air Study
The NASA Clean Air Study was a series of late-1980s experiments at Stennis Space Center showing houseplants reduce VOCs in sealed chambers, later reassessed at building scale.
NASA Deep Space Network
The NASA Deep Space Network (DSN) is a global array of giant radio antennas providing communication, tracking, and navigation for interplanetary spacecraft, operated by JPL.
NASA Docking System
The NASA Docking System is NASA's androgynous spacecraft docking mechanism, built to the International Docking System Standard and serving vehicles visiting the International Space Station since 2019.
NASA insignia
The NASA insignia, informally called the "meatball," is the official round emblem of NASA, designed by employee James Modarelli in 1959 from the agency's seal.
NASA On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing
NASA On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing (OSAM) is a NASA program, led from Goddard Space Flight Center, developing robotic refueling, repair, assembly, and manufacturing of spacecraft in orbit.