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'Yan Taru
The 'Yan Taru, meaning "the Associates" in Hausa, is a network of women teachers founded by Nana Asma'u in the Sokoto Caliphate in the mid-19th century.
(You Drive Me) Crazy
(You Drive Me) Crazy is a 1999 Britney Spears song, the third single from ...Baby One More Time, written by Max Martin's team; its Stop Remix! version, made for the film Drive Me Crazy, peaked at number 5 in the UK and number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100.
(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)
(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!) is a 1986 Beastie Boys single from Licensed to Ill, written in five minutes as a satire of party-rock anthems, peaking at No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100, their only top 10 hit.
(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman, also A Natural Woman, is a 1967 soul song by Gerry Goffin, Carole King, and Jerry Wexler, recorded by Aretha Franklin (US pop #8) and later by King on Tapestry.
Y
Y (wye) is the 25th letter of the English alphabet, derived from Greek upsilon and Phoenician waw, adopted by Romans in the 1st century BC for Greek loanwords, and serving as both vowel and consonant in English.
Y chromosome
Y chromosome: the male sex chromosome, over 59 million base pairs, carrying SRY and fertility genes. Fully sequenced by the T2T consortium in 2023; mosaic loss with aging links it to cancer and heart disease.
Y Combinator
Y Combinator is a seed accelerator in San Francisco, founded in 2005, that funds early-stage startups in batches and has backed over 5,000 companies including Stripe and Airbnb.
Y Combinator ES24, LLC
Y Combinator ES24, LLC is a Delaware-registered venture capital fund vehicle at Y Combinator's Mountain View headquarters, reporting $152.7 million sold in its April 2024 SEC filing.
Y Combinator ES26, LLC
Y Combinator ES26, LLC is a 2026-vintage venture capital fund vehicle affiliated with the startup accelerator Y Combinator, reporting $228.3 million raised from 87 limited partners.
Y Cygni
Y Cygni is a bright eclipsing binary in Cygnus whose two nearly identical O-type stars, about 17.7 solar masses each, orbit every 2.996 days with rapid apsidal motion.
Y dwarf
A Y dwarf, or Y-class dwarf, is the coolest spectral class of brown dwarf, with temperatures below about 600 K, first identified in 2011 from WISE survey data.
Y Gododdin
Y Gododdin, medieval Welsh elegies attributed to Aneirin for Gododdin warriors who fell at Catraeth (Catterick) around AD 600; survives in the 13th-century Book of Aneirin, texts A and B.
Y Lan
Y Lan (Ỷ Lan, 1044–1117) was a consort of Emperor Ly Thanh Tong, mother of Ly Nhan Tong, and twice regent of Dai Viet, directing the Song wars.
Y Ophiuchi
Y Ophiuchi is a classical Cepheid variable star in the constellation Ophiuchus with a 17.12-day pulsation period, markedly fainter than other Cepheids of the same period.
Y Phương
Y Phương, real name Hứa Vĩnh Sước, was a Vietnamese poet of the Tày ethnic group from Cao Bằng province, best known for the poem "Nói với con".
Y tu mamá también
Y tu mamá también (And Your Mother Too) is a 2001 Mexican road movie by Alfonso Cuarón starring Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, and Maribel Verdú, about two teenagers and an older woman traveling to the invented beach Boca del Cielo; Venice award winner and Oscar-nominated screenplay.
Y Wladfa
Y Wladfa ("The Colony") is the Welsh settlement founded in 1865 in Chubut, Patagonia, Argentina, by Mimosa settlers seeking a Welsh-speaking community free of English influence; it survives through chapels, Eisteddfodau, and the Welsh Language Project.
Y-12 National Security Complex
The Y-12 National Security Complex is a Department of Energy nuclear facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, that maintains the U.S. nuclear stockpile and supplies Nuclear Navy fuel.
Y-79
Y-79 (Y79, CVCL_1893, ATCC HTB-18) is the first established human retinoblastoma cell line, isolated in 1971 from the right-eye tumor of a 2.5-year-old girl, named for the 79th Yale attempt, RB1-mutant and MYCN-amplified.
Y-balance test
The Y-balance test is a low-cost field test of dynamic balance in which a person balances on one leg and reaches with the other in three directions.
Y-chromosomal Adam
Y-chromosomal Adam is the most recent common ancestor of all living men via the paternal Y-chromosome line, also called Y-MRCA. Estimated dates range from about 120,000 to 338,000 years ago; he lived in Africa, was not the only man alive, and was not a couple with mitochondrial Eve.
Y-cruncher
y-cruncher is a multi-threaded program by Alexander J. Yee, first released in 2009, that computes Pi and other mathematical constants to trillions of digits and is used as a hardware benchmark.
Y-parameters
Y-parameters, or admittance parameters, are the four coefficients expressing a two-port network's port currents in terms of port voltages, each measured with the opposite port short-circuited.
Y-series non-fullerene acceptors
Y6-series non-fullerene acceptors (Y-series NFAs) are small-molecule electron acceptors for organic solar cells, introduced in 2019 and driving efficiencies from about 13% to past 19%.
Y-shape pegylated somatropin (怡培生长激素)
Y-shape pegylated somatropin (怡培生长激素, Inpegsomatropin, brand 益佩生/Pegpesen) is Xiamen Amoytop's once-weekly 40 kD Y-shaped branched PEG-modified growth hormone, NMPA-approved May 2025 for pediatric GHD, with phase 3 noninferior growth velocity and zero anti-drug antibodies versus daily rhGH.
Y-Δ transform
The Y-Δ transform, also known as the wye-delta transform, converts a three-terminal network between star and delta impedance configurations, published by Arthur E. Kennelly in 1899.
Y: The Last Man
Y: The Last Man is a 60-issue Vertigo comic (2002-2008) by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra about Yorick Brown, last Y-chromosome mammal survivor with his monkey Ampersand, and its canceled 2021 FX on Hulu TV adaptation.
Y: The Last Man (TV series)
Y: The Last Man is a 2021 FX on Hulu post-apocalyptic drama adapted by Eliza Clark from Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra's Vertigo comic, starring Ben Schnetzer, Diane Lane, and Ashley Romans; canceled after one ten-episode season.
Y:SY (이서연)
Y:SY (이서연), born 2000, is the stage name of Lee Seo-yeon, former main rapper of fromis_9, an Idol School finalist, now a H1GHR Music soloist who debuted solo with "Naked" in 2025 and released the mini album GOODIES in 2026.
Y. A. Tittle
Y.A. Tittle (Yelberton Abraham Tittle), Hall of Fame quarterback (1947–1964) for the Colts, 49ers, and Giants; retired NFL record holder with 28,339 passing yards and 212 touchdown passes; record 36 TD passes in 1963; never won a championship.