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Sytinskaya (Martian crater)
Sytinskaya is a 93.2-km-wide impact crater on Mars at 42.36°N, 306.90°E, named in 1982 for Soviet astronomer Nadezhda Nikolaevna Sytinskaya (1906–1974); monitored by HiRISE for dune changes.
Sytse Hoekstra
Sytse Hoekstra (1822–1898) was a Dutch Mennonite theologian who served congregations at Akkrum and Rotterdam before holding the Doopsgezind Seminarie chair in Amsterdam from 1857 to 1892.
Syudou
Syudou (シュードウ) is a Japanese Vocaloid producer and singer-songwriter who broke out with 'Bitter Choco Decoration' in 2019 and wrote 'Usseewa', Ado's 2020 number 1 hit.
Syue Shan
Syue Shan (雪山, Xueshan, Snow Mountain), Taiwan's second highest peak at 3,886 m in Shei-Pa National Park; highest point of the Xueshan Range, ranked #2 of the Baiyue, with glacial cirques and winter snow-season permits.
Syukuro Manabe
Syukuro Manabe (眞鍋 淑郎) is a Japanese-educated American meteorologist who pioneered computer climate modeling and received half of the 2021 Nobel Prize.
Syunik (historical province)
Syunik, also known as Sisakan and, in the 19th and 20th centuries, Zangezur, is a historical province of Armenia, mostly within today's Syunik Province and called "the backbone of Armenia".
Syuzanna R. Harutyunyan
Syuzanna R. Harutyunyan is an Armenian chemist and, since 2018, professor and Chair of Homogeneous Catalysis at the University of Groningen, known for enantioselective Grignard chemistry and a 2023 catalytic oscillator.
Syvash
Syvash (Сиваш), the Rotten or Putrid Sea, is the world's largest hypersaline lagoon (about 2,560 km²) between Crimea and the Ukrainian mainland, separated from the Sea of Azov by the Arabat Spit; its salinity fell under North Crimean Canal inflow and rose sharply after the canal's 2014 closure.
SYVN1
SYVN1, also known as HRD1, is a human gene encoding an ER membrane E3 ubiquitin ligase that clears misfolded proteins and is linked to cancer and rheumatoid arthritis.
Syvne Fluctus
Syvne Fluctus is a 900-km lava flow field (fluctus) on Venus at 36.0S, 72.0E on Aino Planitia, named for a Nenets winter maiden; IAU-approved in 2000 after 1998 introduction.
Syzé Bio (Shize Biopharma)
Shize Biopharma (士泽生物) is a Chinese clinical-stage biotech founded by Dr. Li Xiang in 2021 in Suzhou, developing off-the-shelf iPSC-derived neural cell therapies for Parkinson's disease and ALS.
Syzran
Syzran (Сызрань) is a city in Samara Oblast, Russia, founded in 1683 as a Volga fortress by voivode Kozlovsky; population 167,858, known for its 1683 Spasskaya Tower kremlin and historic merchant center.
Syzygium
Syzygium (Myrtaceae), the world's most species-rich tree genus with over 1100 species, Old World tropics, origin in Australia-New Guinea; includes clove (S. aromaticum) and jambolan (S. cumini).
Syzygium cumini
Syzygium cumini (jambolan, Java plum, jamun) is a Myrtaceae evergreen tree native from tropical Asia to north Queensland, grown for dark purple astringent fruit, used in traditional medicine, and invasive in south Florida.
Syzygium samarangense
Syzygium samarangense, the wax apple or Java apple (makopa, jambu air), is a Myrtaceae fruit tree native from NE India to Vanuatu, grown across Southeast Asia; crisp bell-shaped fruits are 92.9% water, with 'Pink' covering 85% of Taiwan's planted area.
Syzygy (astronomy)
Syzygy is an alignment of three or more celestial bodies in roughly a straight line, such as the Sun, Earth, and Moon at new or full moon.
Syzygy Plasmonics
Syzygy Plasmonics is a Houston deep-decarbonization startup founded in 2018 by Trevor Best and Suman Khatiwada that electrifies chemical manufacturing with light-powered reactors producing low-carbon hydrogen, methanol, ammonia, and sustainable aviation fuel.
SZA
SZA (Solána Imani Rowe, born 1990) is an American R&B singer-songwriter from St. Louis and Maplewood, NJ; albums Ctrl (2017) and SOS (2022), first Hot 100 No. 1 with Kill Bill, 7 Grammy wins from 31 nominations.
SZA discography
SZA, an American singer-songwriter, is known for self-releasing her initial EPs before signing with Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE), becoming the label's first woman signee.
Szabadság, szerelem
Szabadság, szerelem ("Liberty and love") is a six-line poem written by the Hungarian poet Sándor Petőfi in 1847, declaring he would sacrifice life for love and love for freedom.
Szabolcs Bóna
Szabolcs Bóna is a Hungarian politician and agricultural engineer who has served as Minister for Agriculture and Food Economy in the TISZA government since 2026.
Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg
Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg, a county of northeastern Hungary bordering Ukraine, Romania, and Slovakia; seat Nyíregyháza; 5,936 km², 516,799 residents, 229 settlements; formed in 1950, apple-growing region.
Szczecin
Szczecin, also known by its German name Stettin, is a major city and Baltic port in northwestern Poland on the Oder River, and the capital of the Zachodniopomorskie Voivodship.
Szczecin Lagoon
Szczecin Lagoon (Zalew Szczeciński, Oder Lagoon) is a 687 km² shallow oligohaline lagoon on the Poland–Germany border at the Oder mouth, connected to the Baltic by the Świna, Peene, and Dziwna straits and heavily eutrophied.
Szczerbiec
Szczerbiec ("the notched sword") is the coronation sword of Polish kings, the only surviving piece of the Polish regalia, used at coronations from 1320 to 1764 and kept in the Crown Treasury at Wawel Castle, Kraków.
SZD-48 Jantar Standard 2/3
The SZD-48 Jantar Standard 2/3, also known as the PZL Bielsko SZD-48, is a Polish single-seat Standard Class glider built from 1977, with 675 constructed and most exported.
Szebasztian Szabo
Szebasztian Szabó (Szabó Szebasztián, born 1996, Frankfurt am Main) is a Hungarian sprint swimmer, former Serbian competitor, who tied the 50 m butterfly short-course world record at 21.75 in 2021 and swam at Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024.
Széchenyi Chain Bridge
The Széchenyi Chain Bridge (Lánchíd, Széchenyi Lánchíd) is a suspension bridge linking Buda and Pest across the Danube in Budapest, opened in 1849 as Hungary's first permanent Danube crossing.
Széchenyi thermal bath
Széchenyi Thermal Bath (Széchenyi Gyógyfürdő), Budapest's largest medicinal bath in City Park, opened 1913 from Győző Czigler's Neo-Baroque design, fed by artesian wells drilled by Vilmos Zsigmondy, with 18 pools.
Szeged
Szeged (Szeged, Hungary) is Hungary's third-largest city, on the Tisza–Maros confluence near the Serbian and Romanian borders. Known for the 1879 flood reconstruction, Szegedi paprika PDO, the University of Szeged, and the new BYD car factory.