61,984 articles
Lai Ka-ying (黎家盈)
Lai Ka-ying, also known as Li Jiaying, is a Hong Kong astronaut and payload specialist who became the first astronaut from Hong Kong, flying on Shenzhou 23 in 2026.
Laibin power station
Laibin power station is a 1,320 MW coal-fired power plant in Laibin, Guangxi, China, owned by Guangxi Investment Group; its Laibin-B stage was China's first competitively tendered power BOT project.
Laicheng power station
Laicheng power station (华电国际莱城发电厂) is a coal-fired power station in Laiwu, Shandong, China, wholly owned by Huadian Power International, with four 300-megawatt units serving the Shandong grid.
Laika (Лайка)
Laika, also known as Kudryavka and nicknamed Muttnik, was a Soviet space dog who became the first animal to orbit Earth on Sputnik 2 in 1957.
Lain-Jong Li
Lain-Jong Li is a materials scientist working on chemical synthesis of two-dimensional semiconductors, and is Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the National University of Singapore.
Laing O'Rourke
Laing O'Rourke is a privately owned international engineering and construction company headquartered in Dartford, Kent, formed in 2001 when R O'Rourke & Son acquired John Laing's construction arm.
LAION
LAION (Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network) is a German non-profit that releases large machine learning datasets and models, best known for LAION-5B, used to train Stable Diffusion.
LAION-5B
LAION-5B is an open dataset of 5.85 billion image-text pairs, assembled in 2022 by the nonprofit LAION from Common Crawl and used to train Stable Diffusion.
LAION-5B child sexual abuse material discovery
The LAION-5B child sexual abuse material discovery was Stanford Internet Observatory's December 2023 report finding over 1,000 confirmed CSAM entries in the dataset used to train Stable Diffusion.
LAION-5B CSAM discovery
The LAION-5B CSAM discovery was the December 2023 Stanford Internet Observatory finding that the LAION-5B dataset contained over 1,000 links to child sexual abuse material, prompting its removal.
Laizhou–Changyi Oil Pipeline
The Laizhou–Changyi Oil Pipeline, also called the Laichang pipeline (莱昌管道), is a pair of parallel pipelines in Shandong, China, running from Laizhou Port to the Changyi Petrochemical refinery, in service since 2013.
Lajes Field
Lajes Field, also known as Lajes Air Base, is a Portuguese Air Force base on Terceira Island in the Azores that hosts US forces and serves as a transatlantic refueling stop.
Lake Aldwell
Lake Aldwell was a reservoir on the Elwha River on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, filled in 1912 and drained in 2012 with the removal of the Elwha Dam.
Lake Almanor
Lake Almanor is a large reservoir in Plumas County, northeastern California, impounded on the North Fork Feather River and owned by Pacific Gas and Electric Company.
Lake Berryessa
Lake Berryessa, also known as Berryessa Reservoir, is a federal reservoir in Napa County, California, formed in 1957 when the Bureau of Reclamation completed Monticello Dam on Putah Creek.
Lake Burragorang
Lake Burragorang is the reservoir formed behind Warragamba Dam, about 65 kilometers west of Sydney, flooded in 1960 and supplying roughly 80 percent of the city's drinking water.
Lake Cachuma
Lake Cachuma is a reservoir formed by Bradbury Dam on the Santa Ynez River in Santa Barbara County, California, about 25 miles northwest of Santa Barbara.
Lake Charles LNG Terminal
Lake Charles LNG Terminal is an LNG import and regasification terminal near Lake Charles, Louisiana, owned by Energy Transfer, whose export project was suspended in 2025.
Lake Conroe
Lake Conroe is a 21,000-acre reservoir on the West Fork of the San Jacinto River near Conroe, Texas, completed in 1973 as a backup water supply for Houston.
Lake Havasu
Lake Havasu is a reservoir on the Colorado River behind Parker Dam, on the Arizona–California border, supplying the Colorado River and Central Arizona Project aqueducts.
Lake House
Lake House is the name of several houses, most prominently a Grade I listed Elizabethan house of 1578 at Wilsford cum Lake, Wiltshire, now owned by Sting and Trudie Styler.
Lake Kariba
Lake Kariba, a man-made reservoir on the Zambezi River between Zambia and Zimbabwe, created by the Kariba Dam (1956-1959); largest reservoir by volume at about 185 cubic km, 280 km long, 2,130 MW hydropower, major fisheries and tourism, hit by 2024 drought.
Lake Lanier
Lake Lanier, officially Lake Sidney Lanier, is a 38,425-acre reservoir on the Chattahoochee River formed by Buford Dam in 1957 and operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Lake Livingston
Lake Livingston is a reservoir on the Trinity River in East Texas, built and operated by the Trinity River Authority to supply water to Houston.
Lake Martin
Lake Martin is a reservoir on the Tallapoosa River in Alabama, created in 1926 by Alabama Power's Martin Dam and one of the state's principal recreational lakes.
Lake Mead
Lake Mead is the largest reservoir by volume in the United States, created by Hoover Dam on the Colorado River near Las Vegas and supplying water and hydropower to major southwestern cities.
Lake Meredith
Lake Meredith is a reservoir on the Canadian River in the Texas Panhandle, formed by Sanford Dam near Amarillo to supply municipal water to eleven West Texas cities.
Lake Mills (Washington)
Lake Mills was a reservoir on the Elwha River in Olympic National Park, Washington, impounded by the Glines Canyon Dam and drained in autumn 2012.
Lake Mohave
Lake Mohave is a reservoir on the Colorado River, formed by Davis Dam in 1953 on the Arizona–Nevada border and part of Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
Lake Nasser
Lake Nasser is a vast reservoir on the Nile in southern Egypt and northern Sudan, created by the Aswan High Dam and named after Gamal Abdel Nasser.