NewTqnia glossary
Technology glossary
Concise, trustworthy definitions for the technical terms that appear across our news coverage.
300 terms
Electric Propulsion
Electroencephalography(EEG)
A method that records electrical activity produced by the brain using electrodes placed on or near the scalp.
Electron-Beam Irradiation(EBI)
A process that exposes material or air to high-energy electrons to damage microbes or alter materials.
Electron-Transport Layer
Emissivity Control
Engineered Living Material
A material that uses living cells as active components to sense, respond, grow or repair.
Engineering Copilot
Enucleation
The final maturation step in which a developing mammalian red blood cell removes its nucleus.
Environmental Justice
The principle that environmental risks and benefits should not be distributed unfairly across communities.
Environmental Moratorium
Enzyme Cascade
A sequence of enzyme-catalyzed reactions in which the product of one step becomes the input for the next.
Equipment Authorization
A regulatory approval process used to determine whether radio-frequency devices can legally enter a market.
Erythropoiesis
The biological process that produces red blood cells from precursor cells.
Evolutionary Burst
A relatively short period in which a lineage undergoes unusually rapid anatomical or functional change.
Fair Use
A doctrine in United States copyright law that can permit limited use of protected works depending on purpose, nature, amount, and market effect.
Fast Radio Burst
A brief, powerful burst of radio waves from a distant astronomical source.
Fault-Tolerant Logical Qubit
A logical qubit encoded across multiple physical qubits so that errors can be detected and corrected during computation.
Fecal Microbiota Transplantation(FMT)
The transfer of screened intestinal microorganisms from a donor to a recipient to modify the gut microbiome.
Finite Element Analysis(FEA)
A numerical simulation method that divides a complex object into many small elements to estimate how it will respond to forces, heat, vibration or other physical conditions.
Frame Rate
Fusion Fuel Cycle
The system for supplying, recovering, separating and reusing fuel isotopes in a fusion reactor.
Future-State Prediction
Future-state prediction is the estimation of a system's likely physical or computational state at a later moment using its recent observations, actions, and dynamics, allowing decisions to target where the system is expected to be.
Generic Drug
A medicine designed to match an approved reference drug in active ingredient, strength, dosage form, and expected clinical performance.
Genetic Association
A statistical relationship between a genetic variant and a trait that does not by itself prove causation.
Genetic Background
The combined inherited genetic variants that can influence how a trait, disease or mutation behaves.
Genome-Wide Association Study(GWAS)
A study that scans genetic variants across many people to identify variants statistically associated with a trait or condition.
Geographic Atrophy
An advanced form of dry age-related macular degeneration involving loss of retinal cells.
Graph Neural Network(GNN)
A neural network designed to learn from data represented as nodes and connections, making it useful for molecules, materials, transport networks and other relational systems.
Gravitational-Wave Recoil
A kick imparted to a merged black hole when gravitational waves carry momentum away asymmetrically.
