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Emanuella

Emanuella, also spelled Emuella (a separate trilobite genus), is an extinct Devonian brachiopod genus in family Ambocoeliidae, order Spiriferida, named by Grabau 1925; stationary suspension feeder, 393–359 Ma.

Emanuels Grīnbergs

Emanuels Grīnbergs (1911–1982) was a Latvian mathematician who created the graph theory school in Latvia, best known for his 1968 theorem giving a necessary condition for a planar graph to have a Hamiltonian cycle.

Emanuil Aizikovich Kaner

Emanuil Aizikovich Kaner (Еммануїл Айзикович Канер; 1931–1986) was a Soviet and Ukrainian theoretical physicist in Kharkiv who co-predicted cyclotron resonance in metals and founded the theory of acoustic cyclotron resonance.

Emanuil Popdimitrov

Emanuil Popdimitrov (Емануил Попдимитров) was a Bulgarian symbolist poet, critic, and playwright who taught comparative literature at Sofia University and was condemned as decadent after 1944.

Emapalumab

Emapalumab (Gamifant) is a fully human anti-interferon-gamma monoclonal antibody, the first FDA-approved drug (November 2018) for primary hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis refractory to conventional therapy, later expanded to HLH/MAS in Still's disease; the EMA refused European approval.

Emar

Emar, also called Meskene, was an ancient city on the middle Euphrates in Syria, best known for the Late Bronze Age cuneiform archive unearthed there in the 1970s.

Emar destruction

The Emar destruction ended the Late Bronze Age city of Emar, also known as Imar, on the Euphrates in Syria around 1187 BC, when it was burned and abandoned.

Emar tablets

The Emar tablets, also known as the Emar archive, are a Late Bronze Age cuneiform archive of about 1,100 texts from Emar on the Euphrates, Syria.

Emarginata

Emarginata is a Shelley 1896 genus of Muscicapidae chats from southern Africa's Karoo, holding the Karoo, Tractrac, and Sickle-winged Chats, formerly placed in Cercomela.

Emarosa

Emarosa is an American rock band formed in 2006 in Lexington, Kentucky, also known as a post-hardcore act with Jonny Craig. It moved to synth pop under Bradley Walden on Peach Club (2019), Sting (2023), and High Horse Heaven (2026).

Emarsys

Emarsys is an omnichannel customer engagement platform founded in Vienna, Austria, by Josef Ahorner, Hagai Hartman, and Daniel Harari, and acquired by SAP, which renamed it SAP Engagement Cloud in 2026.

Emasculation

Emasculation: surgical removal of a male's external genitalia (penis, testes, scrotum), distinct from castration (testes only). Historically created eunuchs in China, Rome, Byzantium; today orchiectomy treats cancer and serves gender-affirming care.

Emašmaš

Emašmaš (É.MAŠ.MAŠ) was the temple of the goddess Ištar at Nineveh, on the Kouyunjik mound in what is now Mosul, Iraq. Repeatedly rebuilt by Assyrian kings, it burned in 612 BCE.

Émaux et camées

Émaux et camées is a collection of short poems by the French writer Théophile Gautier, first published in 1852, embodying art for art's sake and founding Parnassianism.

Emavusertib

Emavusertib (CA-4948, AU-4948) is Curis's oral, reversible IRAK4 kinase inhibitor, also active against FLT3 and CLK kinases, in Phase 1/2 TakeAim trials for PCNSL, AML/MDS, and CLL.

EMAX (drone manufacturer)

EMAX is a Chinese brand of FPV drones and brushless motors made by Yinyan Model Tech. Ltd of Dongguan, Guangdong, best known for its Tinyhawk micro drones.

Emayatzy Corinealdi

Emayatzy Corinealdi (born 1980, Fort Knox, Kentucky) is an American actress who won the Gotham Award for Breakthrough Actor for Middle of Nowhere (2012), starred in Miles Ahead and The Invitation, and leads Hulu's Reasonable Doubt as Jax Stewart.

EMB-06

EMB-06 (cizutamig, later CND106) is EpimAb's tetravalent BCMA×CD3 FIT-Ig bispecific T-cell engager; Phase 1 in myeloma showed 39.5% ORR, 25% low-grade CRS, no ICANS, and autoimmune development via Vignette Bio and Candid.

EMBA Hunutlu power station

EMBA Hunutlu power station, formerly Yumurtalik Emba power station, is a 1,320 MW imported-coal-fired plant in Adana Province, Türkiye, with two ultra-supercritical units commissioned in 2022.

Emballonuridae

Emballonuridae, the sac-winged, sheath-tailed, and ghost bats, is a bat family (Gervais 1855) of 13 genera and 47 species in tropical Old and New World habitats, defined by wing scent sacs, a sheathed tail, and insect-hawking flight.

Embalming

Embalming is the chemical preservation of a dead body, today via formaldehyde arterial injection, and in ancient Egypt as mummification with natron and canopic jars; regulated by OSHA formaldehyde limits and the FTC Funeral Rule.

Embalming chemicals

Embalming chemicals, also called embalming fluid or embalming solution, are preservative fluids, primarily formaldehyde with methanol, injected to slow decomposition, disinfect tissue, and restore a lifelike appearance.

Embalse nuclear power plant

The Embalse nuclear power plant (Central Nuclear Embalse) is a CANDU 6 plant in Córdoba Province, Argentina, operating since 1984 and refurbished from 2016 to 2019.

Embankment (canal)

An embankment in canal engineering is a raised bank of earth, or earth and masonry, carrying a canal above the surrounding ground so it can cross valleys in a level line.

Embankment dam

An embankment dam, also called an earth dam, is a dam built from compacted soil or rock rather than concrete, with earthfill and rockfill as its two principal types.

EMBARC trial

EMBARC (Establishing Moderators and Biosignatures of Antidepressant Response in Clinical Care) was a US, multisite randomized trial testing whether clinical and biological markers predict antidepressant response in major depression.

Embargo Act of 1807

The Embargo Act of 1807, nicknamed the Dambargo, was a US law signed December 22, 1807, closing American ports to exports to pressure Britain and France.

Embark Studios

Embark Studios is a Stockholm video game developer founded in 2018 by former EA DICE executives and owned by Nexon, known for The Finals and ARC Raiders.

Embarrassingly parallel

An embarrassingly parallel problem, also called pleasingly parallel, splits into independent tasks needing little or no communication between processors, scaling from PC networks to supercomputers.

Embarrassment

Embarrassment is a self-conscious emotion of awkwardness at threatened self-exposure, distinct from shame and guilt, marked by a distinct display and blush, ventrolateral prefrontal and amygdala activity, and appeasement and norm-protective social functions.