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RTFM (AI model)

RTFM (Real-Time Frame Model) is a real-time generative world model by World Labs, released as a research preview in October 2025, that generates explorable 3D worlds frame-by-frame.

RTG-2

RTG-2 (Rainbow Trout Gonad-2), also written RTG2, is the first permanent fish cell line, established from rainbow trout gonad by Wolf and Quimby in 1962; a fibroblast-like, spontaneously immortalized line (ATCC CCL-55) used in fish virology, ecotoxicology, and genotoxicity testing.

RTH zeolite

RTH is a zeolite framework type code in the International Zeolite Association database, describing a two-dimensional small-pore framework whose reference material is RUB-13 and whose 8-ring windows make it relevant to methanol-to-olefins catalysis.

RTHK (香港电台)

RTHK (香港電台), Radio Television Hong Kong, Hong Kong's sole public service broadcaster and oldest station (founded 1928), a government department running 8 radio and 5 TV channels, three relaying mainland output, funded via Head 160 appropriations.

RTI Connext DDS

RTI Connext DDS is a commercial implementation of the Data Distribution Service (DDS) standard from Real-Time Innovations of Sunnyvale, California, used in robotics, aerospace, and automotive systems.

RTI International

RTI International is an independent nonprofit research institute in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Founded in 1958, it is best known for discovering the anticancer compounds Taxol and camptothecin.

RTINGS

RTINGS, also known as RTINGS.com, is a Canadian website that independently laboratory-tests consumer electronics and other products, buying every unit it reviews, founded in 2011.

RTL (German TV channel)

RTL (RTL Television), formerly RTL plus, is a German free-to-air commercial TV channel in Cologne, flagship of Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland under RTL Group and Bertelsmann; launched 1984 from Luxembourg, market leader among 14-49 viewers since 1992.

RTL Group

RTL Group, also known as Radio Télévision Luxembourg, is a Luxembourg-based European media company in television, streaming, radio, and content production, majority-owned by Bertelsmann since 2001.

RTLinux

RTLinux is a hard real-time operating system that runs the standard Linux kernel as a low-priority thread beneath a small real-time core, created at New Mexico Tech in 1995.

rTMS trial (NCT07049211)

NCT07049211, Individualized rTMS Synchronized Task Training, is a randomized sham-controlled double-blind Ruijin Hospital trial of 51 stroke patients testing individualized online rTMS plus motor training for upper limb recovery.

RTN4

RTN4 (reticulon 4, Nogo), human gene at 2p16.1, encodes ER tubule-shaping proteins; its Nogo-A isoform inhibits CNS axon regeneration via the Nogo-66 loop and NgR receptor.

RTP (tokamak)

RTP (Rijnhuizen Tokamak Project) was a medium-sized tokamak at the FOM Institute in Nieuwegein, the Netherlands, studying electron heat transport until its closure in September 1998.

RTP Control Protocol

The RTP Control Protocol (RTCP), the companion control protocol to the Real-time Transport Protocol, carries periodic control packets that monitor quality of data delivery in RTP sessions.

RTR Vehicles

RTR Vehicles, short for Ready to Rock, is an American performance company founded by driver Vaughn Gittin Jr. in 2009, known for its Mustang RTR Spec series and Ford collaborations.

RTV silicone

RTV silicone (room-temperature vulcanizing silicone) is a silicone rubber that crosslinks into an elastomer at room temperature, either as a one-part material curing on contact with atmospheric moisture.

RTV-G-4 Bumper

The RTV-G-4 Bumper was the first large two-stage liquid-fueled rocket ever flown, an American project combining a captured German V-2 with a modified WAC Corporal upper stage.

RTX Corporation

RTX Corporation, formerly Raytheon Technologies, is an American aerospace and defense manufacturer headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, formed by the 2020 merger of United Technologies and Raytheon Company.

RTX toxin-activating protein C, bacteria

RTX toxin-activating protein C (RtxC, InterPro IPR003996, Pfam PF02794) is a bacterial acyltransferase family, prototype HlyC of E. coli, that activates RTX cytolytic toxins by acyl-ACP-dependent fatty acylation of internal lysines in rtxCABD operons.

Ru Chih C. Huang

Ru Chih C. Huang was an American biochemist at Johns Hopkins University known for showing that histones suppress chromosomal RNA synthesis and for developing the anticancer compound Terameprocol.

RU Lupi

RU Lupi (RU Lup) is a strongly accreting, highly variable classical T Tauri star in the Lupus star-forming region, at a distance of 157.5 parsecs.

Ru Meng Ling: Last Night's Rain

Ru Meng Ling: Last Night's Rain (如梦令·昨夜雨疏风骤) is a 33-character ci lyric written around 1100 by the Song poet Li Qingzhao, known for the closing phrase 绿肥红瘦, "green lush, red thin."

Ru ware

Ru ware (汝窑) is a Song dynasty Chinese celadon made for the Northern Song imperial court in the early 12th century, prized for its sky-blue glaze and rarity.

Ru Weerasuriya

Ru Weerasuriya is a video game developer who co-founded Ready At Dawn in 2003, known for Daxter, God of War: Chains of Olympus, and Lone Echo.

Ru-based acidic oxygen-evolution catalysts

Ru-based acidic oxygen-evolution catalysts are ruthenium or ruthenium oxide electrocatalysts for the acidic oxygen evolution reaction, cheaper and more active than iridium but far less stable.

Ru-bda water oxidation catalyst

Ru-bda water oxidation catalysts are ruthenium complexes of the form [Ru(bda)L₂], where bda is 2,2′-bipyridine-6,6′-dicarboxylate, isolated in 2009 and among the most efficient molecular water oxidation catalysts known.

Ru‐Rong Ji

Ru-Rong Ji is a neuroscientist and pain researcher who directs the Center for Translational Pain Medicine at Duke University and studies neuroimmune mechanisms of chronic pain.

Ru’ūs al Jibāl

Ru'ūs al Jibāl ("Heads of the Mountains") is the mountain range of the Musandam Peninsula, Oman and UAE; highest peak Jebel Harim just over 2000 m, flat-lying carbonate rocks, distinct from the Hajar Mountains.

Ru/C12A7 electride ammonia synthesis catalyst

Ru/C12A7:e− is a heterogeneous catalyst for ammonia synthesis, ruthenium nanoparticles on the mayenite electride C12A7:e−, reported by Masaaki Kitano and Hideo Hosono at Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2012.

Ru/C12A7:e− electride catalyst for ammonia synthesis

Ru/C12A7:e− is a 2012 ammonia synthesis catalyst with ruthenium nanoparticles on the mayenite electride C12A7:e−, roughly ten times more active than earlier Ru catalysts at atmospheric pressure.