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Sthulabhadra
Sthulabhadra (स्थूलभद्र) was a Jain acharya of Magadha who convened the council at Pataliputra around 300 BCE that recompiled the Jain canon after a famine.
Stibnite
Stibnite is an antimony sulfide mineral with the formula Sb₂S₃ and the predominant ore mineral of antimony, forming bladed orthorhombic crystals in hydrothermal deposits, often with gold.
Stibogluconic acid
Stibogluconic acid is the gluconic acid complex of pentavalent antimony underlying sodium stibogluconate (SSG, Pentostam), the 1945 antileishmanial injection drug; its structure remains oligomeric and incompletely defined.
STICH trial
STICH (Surgical Treatment for Ischemic Heart Failure), NHLBI-sponsored randomized trial of 2,112 patients testing CABG plus medical therapy versus medical therapy alone in ischemic left ventricular dysfunction; null at 5 years, survival benefit at 10 years (STICHES).
Sticherus
Sticherus (umbrella ferns) is a pantropical genus of about 89 species of forked Gleicheniaceae ferns with scaly buds, single-rowed sori, and monolete spores; genomic phylogeny showed paraphyly, leading to Sticheropsis segregation in 2024.
Sticherus tener
Sticherus tener, known as the Silky Fan-fern or Tasman Fan-fern, is a creeping fan-fern in the Gleicheniaceae family native to Victoria, Tasmania, and New Zealand's southern South Island.
Stichodactyla toxin
Stichodactyla toxins are peptide and protein venoms from carpet sea anemones such as Stichodactyla helianthus, haddoni, and gigantea, including ShK (dalazatide precursor), Sh I, and sticholysins.
Sticholonche
Sticholonche, sole genus of the order Taxopodida with one described species Sticholonche zanclea, is a marine rhizarian protist that rows using oar-like axopodia anchored on its nuclear envelope, once classified as radiolarian or heliozoan.
Stichopus
Stichopus (Brandt, 1835) is a genus of Stichopodidae sea cucumbers including S. horrens, S. herrmanni, S. chloronotus, and S. monotuberculatus, tropical commercial bêche-de-mer species with long-standing taxonomic confusion and active fisheries.
Stick (1985 film)
Stick is a 1985 American crime thriller directed by and starring Burt Reynolds, based on Elmore Leonard's novel, about an ex-convict in Miami seeking revenge after his friend is murdered during a drug-money delivery.
Stick (TV series)
Stick is an Apple TV+ sports comedy created by Jason Keller, starring Owen Wilson as washed-up golfer Pryce Cahill mentoring teen prodigy Santi (Peter Dager). Season 1 ran June 4 to July 23, 2025; season 2 premieres November 4, 2026 with Rhea Seehorn joining.
Stick Fight: The Game
Stick Fight: The Game is a 2017 physics-based 2-4 player fighting game by Landfall West, featuring procedural animation, 100 levels, a level editor, and console and mobile ports.
Stick figure
A stick figure, also called a matchstick figure, is a simple drawing of a person with a circle head and line body, arms, and legs, found from prehistoric rock art to internet animation.
Stick Figure
Stick Figure is an American reggae and dub project founded in 2006 by Scott Woodruff, who records everything himself and fronts a six-piece live band.
Stick It
Stick It (2006) is a teen gymnastics comedy-drama, the directorial debut of Bring It On writer Jessica Bendinger, starring Missy Peregrym as court-ordered gymnast Haley Graham and Jeff Bridges as coach Burt Vickerman; Metascore 53, Rotten Tomatoes 31%.
Stick vacuum
A stick vacuum is a lightweight cordless vacuum cleaner shaped like a single wand with the motor and dust bin in the hand grip, best for quick pickups on hard floors.
Stick-slip motion
Stick-slip motion is the alternating sticking and sudden sliding at a frictional interface, occurring in earthquake faults, granular materials, violin strings, and brakes, and exploited in piezoelectric actuators for precision positioning.
Stick-slip phenomenon
Stick-slip is a frictional sliding cycle in which contacting surfaces stick while force builds, then slip suddenly and repeat, driving earthquakes, bowed instruments, and brake noise.
Stickam
Stickam, a live-streaming video website operated by Advanced Video Communications of Los Angeles, let users broadcast from webcams and embed streams elsewhere from 2006 to 2013.
Stickball
Stickball names two games: an informal street baseball variant played with a broomstick and rubber Spaldeen ball, centered on New York City, and the full-contact Indigenous southeastern tribal sport, 'little brother of war,' related to lacrosse.
Sticker
A sticker is a piece of paper, plastic, or film with adhesive backing, stuck onto surfaces to carry pictures, messages, prices, or identification, from collectibles to industrial labels.
Sticker-spacer framework for associative polymers
The sticker-spacer framework, also called the stickers-and-spacers model, was introduced by Semenov and Rubinstein to describe associative polymers as stickers separated by spacers, predicting phase behavior and biomolecular liquid-liquid phase separation.
Sticking coefficient
The sticking coefficient is a dimensionless number in surface chemistry: the probability that a molecule striking a surface sticks to it rather than reflecting back into the gas phase.
Stickler syndrome
Stickler syndrome (hereditary progressive arthro-ophthalmopathy), a collagen connective tissue disorder causing high myopia, retinal detachment, cleft palate, hearing loss, and early arthritis; mostly autosomal dominant COL2A1.
Stickney Water Reclamation Plant
The Stickney Water Reclamation Plant in Cicero, Illinois, near Chicago, is widely considered the world's largest wastewater treatment plant, cleaning about 700 million gallons of wastewater daily since 1930.
Sticks (musician)
Sticks, also known as Sticky Steez, is the stage name of Junte Uiterwijk (born 1982 in Zwolle), a Dutch rapper best known as frontman of Opgezwolle and for a long solo career.
Sticks and Stones
Sticks and Stones is an English children's rhyme, "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me", first recorded in print in Liverpool in 1857 and used as a comeback against name-calling.
Sticky (Tyler, the Creator song)
Sticky (Tyler, the Creator song), also credited as STICKY..., is a 2024 CHROMAKOPIA track featuring GloRilla, Sexyy Red, and Lil Wayne. Marching-band rap single that hit No. 10 on the Hot 100, No. 1 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, and earned a 2026 Best Rap Song Grammy nomination.
Sticky & Sweet Tour
Sticky & Sweet Tour, Madonna's 2008–2009 world tour supporting Hard Candy; grossed $408 million, the highest-grossing tour ever by a female artist; ran a 2009 extension from London across 22 markets, with a Buenos Aires-filmed DVD/CD released 2010.
Sticky and blunt ends
Sticky and blunt ends, also called cohesive and non-cohesive ends, are the two DNA terminus types made by restriction enzymes: staggered cuts leave 2-4 nt overhangs that anneal for efficient directional ligation, while flush blunt ends ligate 10-100x less efficiently but join universally.