CNS

CNS may refer to:

Science and medicine

• Cell, Nature, and Science, three of the most prestigious scientific journals involved in biomedical research
• Central nervous system, brain and spinal cord
• Clinical nurse specialist
• Coagulase-negative staphylococcus, term to describe all staphylococcus species that are not staphylococcus aureus
• Computational neuroscience
• Conserved non-coding sequence, a region of DNA that is conserved through evolution and does not code for proteins
• Crigler–Najjar syndrome, rare hereditary disease
• Crystallography and NMR system, software library for computational structural biology
• Thiocyanate, an organic compound in the cyanate family
• Color Naming System

Military

• Chief of the Naval Staff, the formal title for the commander of and highest-ranking officer in the navies of various countries, including:
  • Chief of the Naval Staff and Commander of the Royal Canadian Navy, Canada
  • Chief of the Naval Staff (India)
  • Chief of Naval Staff (Pakistan)
• Abbreviation for "Chinese Navy Ship":
  • used unofficially as a prefix before the names of ships of China's People's Liberation Army Navy; see List of active People's Liberation Army Navy ships
  • Formerly used by Taiwanese navy ships; occasionally still used unofficially by third parties as an exonym

Education

• Cicero-North Syracuse High School in Cicero, New York
• City of Norwich School, a secondary school in Norwich, England
• Computation and Neural Systems, a Ph.D. option at Caltech

Organisations

• Canadian Nuclear Society, technical society of the Canadian Nuclear Association
• Congress of Neurological Surgeons, a professional society representing neurosurgeons
• Corporation for National Service, former name of the Corporation for National and Community Service, an independent agency of the United States government
• Council for National Security, military regime that governed Thailand following the 2006 coup d'état
• Szekler National Council (Consiliul Naţional Secuiesc), an organization representing the ethnic Szeklers of Romania

Media

• Cartoon Network Studios
• Catholic News Service
• China News Service
• Courthouse News Service
• CNSNews.com (formerly Cybercast News Service)

Sport

• Campeonato Nacional de Seniores, a football club competition in Portugal

Other

• Cairns International Airport, IATA code
• Chateau Neuf Spelemannslag, Norwegian folk music group
• Chinese National Standards
• Church of the New Song, prison front organization
• Cisco Networking Services, a proprietary directory service-based management system for Cisco Systems' networking products
• Communication, navigation and surveillance, often associated with air traffic management as CNS/ATM
• Custody Notification Scheme, for preventing deaths in police custody