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Instinct (ИCT) (American TV series)

Instinct (CBS, 2018-2019), also known as ИCT, an American police procedural adapted from James Patterson's Murder Games, starring Alan Cumming as ex-CIA professor Dylan Reinhart; first hour-long US broadcast drama with a gay lead, canceled after two seasons.

Institut Curie

Institut Curie is a French foundation for cancer research and treatment in Paris, originating from the Institut du Radium created under Marie Curie in 1909.

Institut de Botanique

Institut de Botanique: name of French university botanical institutes, chiefly Strasbourg (28 rue Goethe, 1882 building, herbarium, botanical garden) and Montpellier (Flahault, 1890; rebuilt 1959; Monument historique 2019).

Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial

The Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (IRI) is a joint CSIC and UPC university research institute in Barcelona, created in November 1995 to conduct basic and applied research in human-centered robotics and automatic control.

Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques

The Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) is an independent French research institute in Bures-sur-Yvette near Paris, founded in 1958 by Léon Motchane for mathematics and theoretical physics.

Institut für Sexualwissenschaft

Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, Magnus Hirschfeld's 1919 Berlin institute, the world's first sexology research and clinic center; performed early gender-affirming surgeries, destroyed by Nazi students in May 1933.

Institut Laue-Langevin

The Institut Laue-Langevin is an international research institute in Grenoble, France, founded in 1967 by France and West Germany, operating the world's most intense continuous neutron source.

Institut Le Rosey

Institut Le Rosey is a bilingual English-French Swiss full-boarding school founded in 1880, with campuses at Rolle and Gstaad and owned by the Gudin family.

Institut Pascal

The Institut Pascal is a French joint research unit of the Université Clermont Auvergne and the CNRS in Clermont-Ferrand, covering robotics, mechanics, and process engineering.

Institut scientifique herbarium

Institut Scientifique herbarium (code RAB), Rabat, Morocco: the herbarium of the Institut Scientifique, Université Mohammed V–Agdal, home of the Flore du Maroc team and a reference collection for Moroccan flora conservation.

Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation

The Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation, known as IACMI – The Composites Institute, is a U.S. public-private consortium for composites manufacturing research founded in 2015.

Institute for Advanced Study

The Institute for Advanced Study, also known as IAS, is a private research institution in Princeton, New Jersey, founded in 1930; Albert Einstein joined its founding Faculty.

Institute for High Energy Physics (Protvino)

The Institute for High Energy Physics is Russia's national particle-physics laboratory at Protvino, home of the U-70 proton synchrotron, a world energy record holder in 1967.

Institute for Historical Review

Institute for Historical Review (IHR): American Holocaust denial organization founded in 1978 in California by Willis Carto and William David McCalden; publisher of the Journal of Historical Review (1980-2002), SPLC-designated hate group, now led by Mark Weber.

Institute for Human and Machine Cognition

The Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) is a not-for-profit research institute of the Florida University System in Pensacola, founded in 1990, best known for its humanoid robotics program.

Institute for Intelligent Systems and Robotics

The Institute for Intelligent Systems and Robotics (ISIR) is a French robotics and artificial intelligence research laboratory in Paris, run by Sorbonne University, CNRS, and Inserm.

Institute for Laboratory Animal Research

The Institute for Laboratory Animal Research (ILAR), a National Academies program founded in 1953, set standards for animal care in research, including the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals.

Institute for Medical Research

Institute for Medical Research (Institut za medicinska istraživanja), Belgrade biomedical research institute founded 1947 by the Serbian Academy of Sciences, a University of Belgrade member with ten research groups and two Centers of Excellence; distinct from the 1952 VMA institute and the Zagreb IMI.

Institute for Nature Study

Institute for Nature Study (附属自然教育園), a 20-hectare protected woodland reserve in Shirokanedai, Minato, Tokyo, run by the National Museum of Nature and Science; a national Natural Monument and Historic Site since 1949, museum branch since 1962.

Institute for Nuclear Research (Russia)

The Institute for Nuclear Research (INR RAS, ИЯИ РАН) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, founded in Moscow in 1970, studies particle and neutrino physics.

Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information

The Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) is a quantum research institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, founded in 2003 with sites in Innsbruck and Vienna.

Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety

The Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (French: Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire, IRSN) was France's public institute for nuclear safety expertise, created in 2002.

Institute for Social Research (University of Michigan)

The Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, established in 1949, is the world's largest academic social science survey and research organization, known for the Panel Study of Income Dynamics.

Institute for Systems Biology

The Institute for Systems Biology is a nonprofit scientific research institute in Seattle, founded in 2000 by Leroy Hood, Alan Aderem, and Ruedi Aebersold to practice cross-disciplinary systems biology.

Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis

The Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), German Institut für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Systemanalyse, is a Karlsruhe Institute of Technology research institute founded in 1995.

Institute for Telecommunication Sciences

The Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS) is the research and engineering laboratory of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration in Boulder, Colorado, known for the Longley-Rice radio propagation model.

Institute for the History of Material Culture (Russian Academy of Sciences)

The Institute for the History of Material Culture (IHMC RAS) is a Saint Petersburg research institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences devoted to Eurasian archaeology.

Institute for the Study of War

Institute for the Study of War (ISW), Washington, D.C. nonprofit think tank founded by Kimberly Kagan in 2007; publishes daily open-source Russian Offensive Campaign Assessments and Ukraine terrain maps, partners with AEI's Critical Threats Project, and takes no government funding.

Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics

The Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP) is a research institute in Moscow founded in 1945 under the Soviet atomic project, known for its synchrotron and proton therapy.

Institute in Basic Life Principles

The Institute in Basic Life Principles, also known as the Institute in Basic Youth Conflicts, is a nondenominational Christian ministry founded by Bill Gothard, incorporated in 1961.