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Rennes-le-Château
Rennes-le-Château, a hilltop village in the Aude, southern France, famous for the Abbé Saunière affair: a priest's unexplained spending, the treasure legend launched by Noël Corbu, and the forged parchments of Pierre Plantard's Priory of Sion.
Rennet
Rennet, also called chymosin or rennin, is the enzyme preparation that coagulates milk in cheesemaking. Traditionally from calf abomasa, now also fermentation-produced chymosin, microbial, and plant coagulants; cleaves κ-casein at Phe105–Met106.
Rennie Davis
Rennie Davis (Rennard Cordon Davis, 1940-2021) was an SDS leader, MOBE project director, and Chicago Seven defendant convicted of inciting a riot and later overturned on appeal; he later followed Guru Maharaj Ji and worked on environmental projects.
Rennsport
Rennsport (RENNSPORT) is a cross-platform sim racing game by Competition Company and Teyon, published by Nacon, on Unreal Engine 5. Announced 2022, Early Access December 2024, full 2025 release; home of the R1 esports championship.
Renny Harlin
Renny Harlin (Renny Lauri Mauritz Harjola, born 1959, Riihimäki, Finland) is a Finnish director of Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger, Deep Blue Sea, The Strangers trilogy, and Deep Water.
Rennyo
Rennyo (蓮如, 1415–1499) was a Japanese Pure Land Buddhist priest and eighth head of Honganji who, after being driven from Kyoto in 1465, rebuilt the movement and is often considered the second founder of Jōdo Shinshū.
Reno 911!
Reno 911! is an improvised Comedy Central mockumentary spoofing Cops, created by and starring Garant, Kenney-Silver, and Lennon of The State; six seasons from 2003, plus Quibi/Roku revivals and films.
Reno Air Races
Reno Air Races (National Championship Air Races): annual pylon air racing at Reno, Nevada, 1964–2023, founded by Bill Stead; six race classes, 8-mile course; 2011 crash killed 11; moved to Roswell, New Mexico in 2025.
Reno Olsen
Reno Bent Olsen (born 1947, Roskilde) is a Danish track cyclist who won gold in the 1968 Mexico City Olympic team pursuit (4:22.44) and later raced professionally on the road for Furzi and other teams.
Reno Pro Soccer
Reno Pro Soccer is a Reno, Nevada ownership group building Reno City FC, a USL Championship men's soccer club with a planned 6,000-seat stadium, targeting a first season in 2028.
Reno U-Haul murders
Reno U-Haul murders: January 3, 1994 robbery-murders of U-Haul employees Peggy Crawford and Keith Christopher in Reno, Nevada, by Alvaro Calambro and Duc Cong Huynh; $2,400 stolen; Calambro executed 1999.
Reno, Nevada
Reno, Nevada, "The Biggest Little City in the World," is the largest city in Northern Nevada, in the Truckee Meadows. Founded 1868 as a railroad town, incorporated 1903; gambling legalized 1931; population 264,165 (2020).
Renography
Renography, or dynamic renal scintigraphy, is a nuclear medicine imaging method that tracks an injected radiotracer through the kidneys to measure function, perfusion, and urinary drainage.
Renogy
Renogy (如果新能源) is an American renewable energy company founded in 2010 as a student project at Louisiana State University, making solar panels, lithium batteries, and portable power stations.
Renoir (2025 film)
Renoir (ルノワール) is a 2025 coming-of-age drama by Japanese director Chie Hayakawa, in Competition at Cannes 2025. Set in 1987 suburban Tokyo, it follows 11-year-old Fuki (Yui Suzuki) coping with her father's terminal illness; the title references Renoir's painting La Petite Irène.
Renoir (Mercurian crater)
Renoir is a 220-km peak-ring impact basin on Mercury at 18.34S, 52.01, named 1976 for painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Older and more degraded than Raditladi and Rachmaninoff, with hollows on its peak ring; imaged by MESSENGER MDIS.
Renoly Santiago
Renoly Santiago (born 1974, Lajas, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican actor, singer, and writer known for Dangerous Minds, Hackers, Con Air, and Broadway's The Capeman, a Drama Desk-recognized role.
Renormalization
Renormalization is the set of methods by which quantum field theories giving infinite answers are made finite, by absorbing divergences into redefined masses and charges.
Renormalization group
The renormalization group is a mathematical framework tracking how a system's effective description changes with scale, identifying critical points of phase transitions and universal scaling laws.
Renormalization scheme
A renormalization scheme is a prescribed procedure in quantum field theory for regularizing divergent quantities and absorbing the divergences into redefined parameters, specifying both the counterterms and their finite parts.
Renormalized stress-energy tensor
The renormalized stress-energy tensor is the finite expectation value of a quantum field's stress-energy operator in curved spacetime, obtained after renormalizing ultraviolet divergences; it sources the semiclassical Einstein equation, whose general solution remains unknown.
Renorrhaphy
Renorrhaphy is the multilayer suture repair of the kidney's resection bed during partial nephrectomy, providing hemostasis, watertight collecting-system closure, and repair of the renal defect after tumor excision.
RENOVA trial
RENOVA (NCT05506319) was a Brazilian single-center open-label randomized trial of septic shock vasopressor weaning, comparing norepinephrine-first versus vasopressin-first reduction; hypotension 43.6% vs 25.6%, not significant.
RenovaBio
RenovaBio, Brazil's National Biofuel Policy established by Law No. 13,576 in 2017, promotes biofuels through emissions targets, certification, and CBIO decarbonization credits traded on the B3 exchange.
Renovaro Inc.
Renovaro Inc., formerly Enochian Biosciences, was a Los Angeles-based biotechnology company that developed preclinical cell and gene therapies for cancer and HIV before renaming itself Lunai Bioworks in 2025.
Renovascular hypertension
Renovascular hypertension, also called renal hypertension, is secondary hypertension from renal artery stenosis (atherosclerosis ~90%, fibromuscular dysplasia ~10%) activating the renin-angiotensin system; medical therapy is first-line, with selective revascularization.
RENOVATE trial
RENOVATE-COMPLEX-PCI (NCT03381872) is a 1,639-patient Korean randomized trial showing IVUS/OCT-guided PCI reduced target vessel failure versus angiography guidance in complex coronary lesions, sustained at 5.3 years (10.5% vs 14.9%).
Renovation Wave
The Renovation Wave is a European Commission strategy, launched in October 2020, to double the EU's annual building renovation rate and renovate 35 million units by 2030.
Renown-class battlecruiser
The Renown class was a pair of Royal Navy battlecruisers, HMS Renown and HMS Repulse, built during the First World War for very high speed and heavy 15-inch guns.
Renpenning syndrome
Renpenning syndrome (OMIM 309500), also called Sutherland-Haan or Golabi-Ito-Hall syndrome, is a rare X-linked recessive intellectual disability caused by PQBP1 mutations, with microcephaly, short stature, leanness, and small testes in males.