| Geodetic graph | 1962 | Øystein Ore | — |
| Hadron | 1962 | Lev Okun | type of quantum particle |
| Tsou plot | 1962 | Chen-Lu Tsou | plot |
| Buddy memory allocation | 1963 | Harry Markowitz | algorithm |
| Static skin-effect | 1963 | Mark Azbel | phenomenon |
| Budget-maximizing model | 1968 | William A. Niskanen | conceptual model |
| Taiwan ramen | 1971 | Misen | food |
| McKelvey diagram | 1972 | Vincent Ellis McKelvey | diagram |
| Zaremba's conjecture | 1972 | Stanisław Krystyn Zaremba | hypothesis |
| Carbon chauvinism | 1973 | Carl Sagan | hypothesis |
| Cross-polarization | 1973 | John S. Waugh | — |
| Media system dependency theory | 1976 | Melvin Defleur | sociological theory |
| Orthoebolavirus zairense | 1976 | Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum | taxon |
| Coves del Fem | 1977 | Marc Boada Ferrer | cave |
| Ketef Hinnom scrolls | 1979 | Gabriel Barkay | inscription |
| Libet experiment | 1979 | Benjamin Libet | experiment |
| E-graph | 1980 | Charles Gregory Nelson | — |
| Quantum Hall effect | 1980 | Klaus von Klitzing | — |
| Milano style Doria | 1983 | Yasuhiko Shōgaki | food |
| Robin Hood hashing | 1986 | Pedro Celis | double hashing |
| Campus board | 1988 | Wolfgang Güllich | rock and sport climbing equipment |
| Euler's disk | 1990 | — | — |
| Eaton-Moog Multiple-Touch-Sensitive keyboard | 1992 | John Eaton | electronic musical instrument |
| Caffenol | 1995 | Scott A. Williams | photographic developer |
| Alkali | 1998 | Nicholas Gessler | ordinary chondrite |
| ALTA II reflectance spectrometer | 1998 | Allan Treiman | spectrometer |
| 12095 Pinel | April 25, 1998 | Eric Walter Elst | small Solar System body |
| Emoji | 1999 | Shigetaka Kurita | notation |
| Avigan | 2000 | Toyama Chemical | pharmaceutical product |
| Double empathy problem | 2000 | Damian Milton | psychological theory |
| Phantom time conspiracy theory | 2000 | Heribert Illig | conspiracy theory |
| Yamatosaurus | May 2004 | — | fossil taxon |
| Debris disk of HD 69830 | September 2005 | — | debris disk |
| JWH-367 | 2006 | John W. Huffman | type of chemical entity |
| Abourma Petroglyphs | 2008 | French Archaeological Mission "Ayakagytma" on the Neolithisation in Central Asia | rock art |
| Areni-1 shoe | 2008 | Diana Zardaryan | shoe |
| Gliese 667 Cb | 2009 | High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher | super-Earth |
| (614599) 2010 AB78 | January 12, 2010 | Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer | near-Earth object |
| Gliese 581 f | September 29, 2010 | Steven S. Vogt | visual artifact |
| Sussex maniraptors | 2011 | David Brockhurst | — |
| Opening the tetraquark | 2014 | CERN | occurrence |
| (578835) 2014 GL54 | April 8, 2014 | Pan-STARRS1 | scattered disc |
| Utah monolith | 2016 | Utah Department of Public Safety | unidentified object |
| 2017 DB120 | February 25, 2017 | Pan-STARRS | near-Earth object |
| Iroungou cave | 2018 | Olivier Testa | cave |
| 2019 EU5 | March 5, 2019 | David J. Tholen | trans-Neptunian object |
| AbC-19 rapid antibody test | 2020 | UK Rapid Test Consortium | — |
| Aten | 2020 | Zahi Hawass | ruins |
| Proximity chat | March 2020 | Almas Abulkhairov | Internet genre |
| 2020 PN1 | August 12, 2020 | Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System | near-Earth object |
| (614689) 2020 XL5 | December 12, 2020 | Pan-STARRS | near-Earth object |
| Cyme laeta | 2021 | Noortje Looijenga | taxon |
| FORCEDENTRY | 2021 | Citizen Lab | exploit |
| Mate Grande | April 7, 2021 | University of Chile | caldera |
| PwnKit | November 18, 2021 | Qualys | named vulnerability |
| Log4Shell | November 24, 2021 | Alibaba Cloud | named vulnerability |
| Odontonia kerangcaris | December 10, 2021 | Mike Groenhof | taxon |
| 2022 AE1 | January 6, 2022 | Mount Lemmon Survey | near-Earth object |
| Bulovqaya | 2023 | Vali Bakhshaliyev | archaeological site |