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Ansun Biopharma

Ansun Biopharma, formerly NexBio, Inc., is a San Diego biotechnology company founded in 2003 that develops DAS181, a Phase 3 antiviral drug candidate for respiratory virus infections.

Answer Me!

Answer Me! was a 1991–1994 American transgressive 'hate zine' by Jim and Debbie Goad, four annual issues; its 1994 'Rape Issue' triggered a Bellingham obscenity trial ending in acquittal.

Answer set programming

Answer set programming (ASP) is a declarative logic programming paradigm for combinatorial search and knowledge representation, in which a solver computes a program's stable models, called answer sets.

Answer song

Answer song, response song, or answer record: a song made in answer to a previous song by another artist, widespread in blues and R&B in the 1930s–1950s, popular in country and pop through the 1960s, and surviving in hip hop diss tracks.

ANSWER study

ANSWER Program (American Norditropin Studies: Web-Enabled Research), NCT01009905, a 2002-2016 US observational registry of 19,847 Novo Nordisk Norditropin growth hormone patients, paired with Europe's NordiNet IOS.

Answer to Sor Filotea

The Answer to Sor Filotea (Respuesta a sor Filotea) is a 1691 letter by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz defending women's right to study and write.

Answered Prayers

Answered Prayers is Truman Capote's unfinished roman a clef novel of New York high society; chapters published in Esquire 1975-1976 banished him from his society circle, and the incomplete book appeared posthumously in 1986-1987.

Answers in Genesis

Answers in Genesis is an American young-Earth creationist apologetics ministry founded by Ken Ham in 1994, operating the Creation Museum and Ark Encounter theme park in Kentucky.

Ansys

Ansys, also known as ANSYS, Inc., is an American engineering simulation software company founded in 1970 in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, acquired by Synopsys for about $35 billion in 2025.

Ansys CFX

Ansys CFX is a computational fluid dynamics software package developed by Ansys, part of Synopsys, positioned for turbomachinery design and optimization, and paired with Ansys Fluent as its general-purpose solver.

Ansys Fluent

Ansys Fluent is a commercial computational fluid dynamics software package sold by Ansys, Inc., modeling fluid flow, heat transfer, and chemical reactions in complex geometries.

Ansys HFSS

Ansys HFSS is a 3D electromagnetic simulation package for high-frequency and high-speed electronics such as antennas, RF and microwave components, filters, and interconnects, first developed by Ansoft in the 1980s.

Ansys Maxwell

Ansys Maxwell is a 2D and 3D electromagnetic field simulation solver for low-frequency fields, originally developed by Ansoft in 1986, used to design electric machines, transformers, and actuators.

Ansys Workbench

Ansys Workbench is the integration and workflow platform connecting Ansys simulation products: it links geometry, meshing, solving, and post-processing in one project schematic, with CAD interoperability and multiphysics data sharing.

Ant

Ant (Formicidae), eusocial hymenopteran insects; about 15,700 named species, an estimated 20 quadrillion individuals and 12 megatons dry carbon biomass, known from Cretaceous fossils and defined by colony life and pheromone trails.

Ant & Dec

Ant & Dec, Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, are an English presenting duo who met on Byker Grove in 1989 and host I'm a Celebrity and Britain's Got Talent.

Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway

Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway: British ITV light-entertainment series (also Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway) hosted by Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, airing 2002-2009 and 2013-2024 over 20 series; known for the End of the Show Show, Win the Ads, and Ring My Bell.

Ant Anstead

Ant Anstead, born Anthony Richard Anstead, is a British television presenter, car builder, and author known for For the Love of Cars and for co-hosting Wheeler Dealers from 2017.

Ant colony

An ant colony is a society of eusocial ants of one species, made up of queens, short-lived males, and sterile female workers that act as a single superorganism.

Ant colony optimization algorithms

Ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithms solve hard combinatorial optimization problems with artificial ants whose pheromone-based choices improve over iterations, introduced by Marco Dorigo in 1991.

Ant Consumer Finance

Ant Consumer Finance is a licensed consumer finance company in Chongqing, China, founded in 2021 to take over Ant Group's Huabei and Jiebei consumer lending brands.

Ant Design

Ant Design, also known as antd, is an enterprise-class design language and React UI component library developed by Alibaba Group and first released in 2015.

Ant Group (蚂蚁集团)

Ant Group (蚂蚁集团), formerly Ant Financial, is a Chinese fintech company headquartered in Hangzhou that operates Alipay, which with WeChat Pay handled 96% of China's mobile payments.

Ant International (蚂蚁国际)

Ant International (蚂蚁国际) is a Singapore-headquartered global digital payments and fintech provider and an independent business unit of Ant Group, formed in the March 2024 reorganization.

Ant Lingbo (蚂蚁灵波)

Ant Lingbo (蚂蚁灵波), formally Shanghai Ant Lingbo Technology Co., Ltd., is a Shanghai embodied-AI company founded by Ant Group in 2024, building foundation models as robot 'brains'.

Ant McPartlin

Ant McPartlin (Anthony David McPartlin, born 1975) is an English TV presenter and former PJ & Duncan pop singer; one half of Ant & Dec, hosts of Saturday Night Takeaway, I'm a Celebrity, and Britain's Got Talent.

Ant Middleton

Ant Middleton (Anthony Middleton), British ex-Special Boat Service operator and TV personality, chief instructor of SAS: Who Dares Wins (2015-2021) and SAS Australia, Sunday Times bestselling author, convicted of assault in 2013.

Ant Miles

Ant Miles, full name Anthony David Miles, is a British drum and bass producer who co-founded RAM Records in 1992 and made 'Valley of the Shadows'.

Ant-Man

Ant-Man is a Marvel Comics superhero identity held by Hank Pym, the creator of Pym Particles, and later Scott Lang; both shrink to insect size, control ants, and Pym was a founding Avenger.

Ant-Man (film)

Ant-Man, also known as Marvel's Ant-Man, is a 2015 American superhero film directed by Peyton Reed, starring Paul Rudd as master thief Scott Lang and Michael Douglas as Hank Pym.