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Dusky
Dusky are an English electronic music production duo from London, formed in 2011 by Nick Harriman and Alfie Granger-Howell, known for the 2013 Beatport No. 1 "Careless".
Dusky moorhen
The dusky moorhen (Gallinula tenebrosa) is a dark waterbird of the rail family, found across eastern and south-western Australia, Indonesia, and New Guinea, and known for its communal breeding.
DUSP1
DUSP1 (MKP-1, CL100) is a nuclear dual-specificity phosphatase on 5q35.1 that dephosphorylates ERK, JNK, and p38 MAPKs, mediating glucocorticoid anti-inflammatory effects and acting context-dependently in cancer.
DUSP6
DUSP6 (MKP-3, Pyst1) is a cytoplasmic, ERK1/2-specific dual-specificity phosphatase at 12q21.33 that dephosphorylates ERK's T-X-Y motif as an FGF/ERK negative feedback regulator, with developmental and cancer roles.
Dusquetide
Dusquetide (SGX942, IMX942) is a synthetic 5-amino-acid innate defense regulator peptide derived from indolicidin, developed by Soligenix for severe oral mucositis in head and neck cancer; it binds p62, and its Phase 3 missed the primary endpoint.
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf (Dusseldorp), city on the Rhine and state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia since 1946; chartered 1288, sixth largest German city, 659,312 residents in 2025, major trade-fair, fashion, and Japanese business hub.
Düsseldorf Airport
Düsseldorf Airport (Flughafen Düsseldorf), in the Lohausen district about 7 kilometers north of the city, is the largest airport in North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth largest in Germany.
Düsseldorf District
Düsseldorf District (Regierungsbezirk Düsseldorf) is one of the five administrative districts of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, covering the state's densely settled northwest from its seat in Düsseldorf.
Düsseldorf school of painting
The Düsseldorf school of painting (Düsseldorfer Malerschule) comprises over a thousand painters trained at the Düsseldorf academy from 1819 to 1918, most influential between 1830 and 1870.
Düsseldorf School of Photography
The Düsseldorf School of Photography, also called the Becher School or Düsseldorfer Fotoschule, is a group of photographers taught by Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1976.
Düsseldorf Stadtbahn
The Düsseldorf Stadtbahn is Düsseldorf's light rail system, eleven Rheinbahn-operated lines on about 6.9 km of tunnel through the center, some reaching Neuss, Krefeld, and Duisburg.
Dussmann Stiftung & Co. KGaA
Dussmann Stiftung & Co. KGaA is a Berlin-based services group founded by Peter Dussmann, providing facility management, food services, care, and the KulturKaufhaus media store.
Dust
Dust, also known as beggar's velvet, is mineral particulate matter lifted from dry land surfaces by wind and carried in the air, reducing visibility and degrading air quality.
Dust (His Dark Materials)
Dust, also known as Rusakov particles and dark matter, is a fictional substance in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials. It is an invisible matter that gathers around conscious beings.
Dust Bolt
Dust Bolt is a German thrash metal band from Landsberg am Lech, Bavaria, formed by schoolmates around 2006, with five studio albums including Sound & Fury (2024).
Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl, also called the Dirty Thirties, was a 1930s period of drought and dust storms on the Great Plains that drove farming families to migrate.
Dust Brothers
The Dust Brothers are the Los Angeles production duo Mike Simpson and John King, formed 1985, known for Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique, Beck's Odelay, and the Fight Club score; distinct from the British duo briefly using the same name.
Dust devil
A dust devil is a small, rapidly rotating whirlwind made visible by dust, formed by surface heating on hot, dry afternoons rather than by a storm cloud.
Dust explosion
A dust explosion, also called a combustible dust explosion, is the rapid combustion of a suspended dust cloud, which destroys equipment and buildings in industries that handle powders.
Dust in early galaxies
Dust in early galaxies is the solid grains formed in galaxies within roughly the first billion years of cosmic history, seen by ALMA at redshifts as high as 7.
Dust in fusion plasmas
Dust in fusion plasmas is particulate matter up to about 1 mm that forms in magnetic confinement devices, studied chiefly as a safety inventory for ITER.
Dust in the Wind
Dust in the Wind is a 1977 Kansas ballad by Kerry Livgren, born from a Travis-picking exercise; released January 1978, it peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and is 3× Platinum.
Dust in the Wind (1986 film)
Dust in the Wind (戀戀風塵), 1986 Taiwanese drama by Hou Hsiao-hsien, written by Wu Nien-jen and Chu Tien-wen; childhood sweethearts leave a declining mining town for Taipei; based on Wu's first love.
Dust mite allergy
Dust mite allergy, also called dust allergy, is a hypersensitivity to proteins from house dust mites in bedding and carpeting, causing perennial rhinitis, asthma, or atopic dermatitis.
Dust storm
A dust storm, or sandstorm, is a weather event where strong winds lift sand and dust from dry soil, often forming a miles-long wall of dust.
Dust-obscured galaxy
A dust-obscured galaxy is a galaxy whose interstellar dust absorbs starlight and re-emits it in the infrared, hiding it from optical surveys; possibly half of early star formation was obscured.
Dust-obscured star formation in submillimeter galaxies
Dust-obscured star formation in submillimeter galaxies is the process by which intensely star-forming high-redshift galaxies hide stellar birth behind dust, making submillimeter galaxies bright at submillimeter wavelengths while faint optically.
Dust-to-gas ratio
The dust-to-gas ratio is the mass of interstellar dust divided by the mass of gas in a region or galaxy, about 1 percent in the Milky Way.
DUSt3R and VGGT (feedforward geometry)
DUSt3R and VGGT are transformer models in 3D computer vision that predict camera parameters, depth maps, and point maps from uncalibrated images in a single pass.
Dustborn
Dustborn is a 2024 single-player story-driven action-adventure game by Red Thread Games, published by Quantic Dream, about Pax, a Vox-wielding Anomal leading a punk-band-cover crew across an alternate divided America.