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Yseult (singer)

Yseult (Yseult Onguenet, b. 1994) is a French singer-songwriter from Nouvelle Star 2014 who runs her own label, won Female Revelation at the 2021 Victoires de la musique, sang My Way at the Paris 2024 Olympics closing ceremony, and charted on the Billboard Hot 100 with "Alibi".

Ysgol Glan Clwyd

Ysgol Glan Clwyd is a Welsh-medium secondary school in St Asaph, Denbighshire, Wales, opened in 1956 as the first Welsh-medium secondary school in Wales, with about 1,034 pupils in 2022.

Ysios Capital

Ysios Capital is a Spanish venture capital firm founded in 2008 and based in Barcelona and San Sebastián, managing over €400 million in life sciences funds.

YSL Records

YSL Records (Young Stoner Life Records) is an Atlanta hip-hop label founded in 2016 by Young Thug under 300 Entertainment, home to Gunna and Lil Keed, whose Slime Language 2 hit No. 1; prosecutors later alleged YSL was also a gang.

YSL Records racketeering trial

The YSL Records racketeering trial (Georgia v. Jeffery Williams et al.) prosecuted the Young Slime Life/Young Stoner Life collective under Georgia's RICO Act from 2022 to 2025, ending with pleas, acquittals, and no murder convictions.

Ysleta Independent School District

Ysleta Independent School District, known as YISD, is a public school district in El Paso, Texas, serving pre-K through 12th grade with 48 schools and a B state rating.

Yspahan

Yspahan is a 2006 dice-drafting board game by Sébastien Pauchon set in Isfahan in 1598; 2–4 players fill souks, supply a camel caravan, and build across three seven-day weeks; Spiel des Jahres 2007 nominee.

YSR Congress Party

YSR Congress Party (Yuvajana Shramika Rythu Congress Party, YSRCP) is a regional Indian party in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Founded by K. Shiva Kumar in 2009 and led by Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy since 2011, it won 151 of 175 AP seats in 2019, governed 2019–2024, and fell to 11 seats in 2024.

YSR district

YSR district (YSR Kadapa, వై ఎస్ ఆర్ కడప జిల్లా), formerly Cuddapah/Kadapa, is a Rayalaseema district of Andhra Pradesh headquartered at Kadapa; 2,882,469 people (2011), 15,359 sq km, renamed Y.S.R. in 2010.

Yssi SB

Yssi SB, the stage name of Ychano Hunt, is a Dutch rapper from Almere whose 2020 single "Paper Zien" reached number 5 on the Dutch charts.

Ystradgynlais

Ystradgynlais, a Welsh-speaking town in the upper Swansea Valley, southwest Powys, Wales; population 8,270 (2021). Known for the 1837 Ynyscedwyn anthracite hot-blast iron smelting breakthrough by David Thomas and George Crane, coal mining, and painter Josef Herman's 1944-1955 residency.

Ysy A

Ysy A (Alejo Nahuel Acosta Migliarini, born 1998) is an Argentine rapper and producer who founded the freestyle battle El Quinto Escalón and the trio Modo Diablo.

YT (rapper)

YT (Oluwatola Joseph Fola-Alade) is an English rapper and producer from Romford, east London, known for the TikTok hit "Arc'teryx", the 2023 mixtape #STILLSWAGGIN, "Black & Tan" with Lancey Foux, and the 2025 mixtape OI! on G2G.

YTA TV

YTA TV (Your Television America) is an American broadcast and streaming television network launched February 1, 1985 as the Nostalgia Channel. Formerly Nostalgia Good TV, GoodLife TV, AmericanLife TV, Youtoo TV, and Youtoo America; owned since 2022 by Invincible Entertainment, headquartered in Bridgeport, Pennsylvania.

YTaO4 thermal barrier coating

YTaO4 thermal barrier coatings are ceramic coatings of yttrium tantalate, a ferroelastic oxide studied as a next-generation top coat for hot-section turbine parts, replacing yttria-stabilized zirconia above 1600 °C.

YTB Fatt

YTB Fatt (Cavon De'shawn Paige, born 2001) is a West Memphis, Arkansas rapper on Moneybagg Yo's Bread Gang/Loaf Boyz Ventures/10K Projects. Known for "Shot Off Gumbo" and "Get Back," debut mixtape Who Is Fatt (2023), Billboard 200 entry On Zai, and 2025 XXL Freshman selection.

YTH domain

The YTH domain, or YT521-B homology domain, is a conserved RNA-binding domain of about 100 to 150 amino acids that recognizes m6A, the most abundant internal modification in eukaryotic messenger RNA.

YTHDC1

YTHDC1 (YT521-B), human gene at 4q13.2, is the only exclusively nuclear YTH-domain m6A RNA reader; it regulates splicing, mRNA export, chromatin, fertility, and is a cancer drug target.

YTHDF1

YTHDF1 (YTH N6-methyladenosine RNA binding protein 1) is a human cytoplasmic m6A reader protein, 559 amino acids, UniProt Q9BYJ9, that binds m6A-modified mRNAs; studied as a cancer biomarker and immune-evasion regulator, distinct from YTHDF2 and YTHDF3.

YTHDF2

YTHDF2 (YTH N6-methyladenosine RNA binding protein F2) is the first identified mammalian m6A reader protein, a cytoplasmic RNA-binding protein that promotes m6A-dependent mRNA decay via CCR4-NOT and RNase P/MRP, also binds m5C, and regulates immunity, cancer, inflammation, and viral infection.

YTL Corporation

YTL Corporation Berhad is a Malaysian infrastructure conglomerate spanning power generation, water, cement, property, and telecommunications, and Malaysia's first independent power producer, licensed in 1993.

YTL Power International

YTL Power International is a Malaysian utilities company, majority owned by YTL Corporation, with power generation, water, and telecommunications businesses in Malaysia, the UK, and Singapore.

Ytm4 Co Investment Partners

Ytm4 Co Investment Partners, LP is a Delaware limited partnership venture capital fund at 410 Park Avenue in New York, reporting $109 million sold in May 2013.

YTMND

YTMND, "You're the Man Now, Dog", is Max Goldberg's single-page meme site from 2001, pairing a looping image, zooming text, and audio; peaked 2004-2008, shut down May 2019, relaunched March 2020.

Yto Barrada

Yto Barrada, born in Paris in 1971, is a French-Moroccan artist whose photography, film, sculpture, and textiles examine borders, migration, and postcolonial history, centered on Tangier.

YTO Express Group

YTO Express Group, also called Yuantong Express, is a Shanghai-headquartered Chinese express delivery company founded in 2000 by Yu Huijiao, China's second-largest courier by parcel volume, with its own cargo airline.

Ytterbium

Ytterbium is a soft, silvery lanthanide element with symbol Yb and atomic number 70, used chiefly in high-power fiber lasers, optical atomic clocks, and medical brachytherapy.

Ytterbium ion optical clock

A ytterbium ion optical clock is an atomic clock that uses a single laser-cooled ytterbium-171 ion, reaching systematic uncertainties near 10^-18 and testing whether fundamental constants change.

Ytterbium ion qubit

A ytterbium ion qubit is a quantum bit encoded in a single trapped ytterbium-171 ion, a widely used species in quantum processors, with a record coherence time exceeding one hour.

Ytterbium titanate

Ytterbium titanate, Yb2Ti2O7, is a rare-earth pyrochlore oxide and leading candidate for a quantum spin ice, with a ground state that shifts between ferromagnetic and spin-liquid-like depending on defects.