All articles starting with S

Schwinn Bicycle Company

Schwinn Bicycle Company, founded as Arnold, Schwinn & Company in Chicago in 1895 by Ignaz Schwinn and Adolph Arnold, is an American bicycle brand now owned by Pon Holdings.

Schwinn Sting-Ray

The Schwinn Sting-Ray is a children's bicycle introduced by Schwinn of Chicago in 1963, featuring a banana seat, high-rise handlebars, and a small front wheel.

SCI Packaging (SCI PH Inc.)

SCI Packaging (SCI PH Inc.) was a Los Angeles-based holding company formed in 2016 by Stone Canyon Industries to own the packaging makers BWAY and Mauser Group.

Sci-Hub

Sci-Hub is a website providing free access to millions of paywalled scholarly articles, created in 2011 by Alexandra Elbakyan and found liable for copyright infringement.

Sciacca (ash-Shāqqah) is a fishing port and spa town in the province of Agrigento on Sicily's southwestern coast, founded as a thermal dependency of Selinunte, known for Monte Kronio's sulfur springs, coral, ceramics, and its old carnival.

Sciaenidae

Sciaenidae, the croakers and drums, is a family of about 290 species of ray-finned fishes whose swim bladder muscles produce drumming sounds, and it supports major commercial fisheries in tropical and warm temperate oceans.

Sciaky

Sciaky, Inc. is an American manufacturer of electron beam welding systems and EBAM metal 3D printers. Founded in Chicago in 1939, it serves aerospace, defense, energy, and nuclear customers.

Sciaridae

Sciaridae, the dark-winged fungus gnats or root gnats, are a large Diptera family of Sciaroidea with 2,000+ species; larvae live in soil litter on roots, and pests like Bradysia infest greenhouses.

Sciatic nerve

Sciatic nerve: largest human nerve, from L4–S3 roots, exiting the pelvis below piriformis and dividing into tibial and common peroneal nerves near the knee; supplies posterior thigh and most leg and foot motor and sensory function.

Sciatica

Sciatica: pain radiating from the buttock down the leg from sciatic nerve irritation or compression, usually a herniated lumbar disc; up to 43% lifetime prevalence, mostly self-limiting, with surgery offering only short-term benefit.

Scicli

Scicli, Baroque town in the province of Ragusa, Val di Noto, Sicily; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2002 with eight towns; rebuilt after the 1693 earthquake; Montalbano filming location.

SCID mouse

The SCID mouse is a laboratory mouse strain lacking functional T and B cells, discovered at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia and reported in 1983.

Science

Science is the systematic study of the natural world through observation, experiment, and testable explanation, from the Latin scientia, knowledge; its modern form emerged from the Scientific Revolution of roughly 1500 to 1700.

Science (journal)

Science is a weekly peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scientific journal published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Founded in 1880, it ranks alongside Nature and PNAS among the most prestigious general-science journals.

Science Advances

Science Advances: AAAS's gold open-access multidisciplinary journal (eISSN 2375-2548), CC BY/CC BY-NC, $4,500 base APC, Editor-in-Chief H. Holden Thorp, 8-day median first decision, Q1 across four OpenAlex subfields.

Science Adventure (サイエンスアドベンチャー)

Science Adventure (科学アドベンチャー) is a MAGES. visual novel franchise created by Chiyomaru Shikura, spanning CHAOS;HEAD, STEINS;GATE, ROBOTICS;NOTES, CHAOS;CHILD, OCCULTIC;NINE, ANONYMOUS;CODE, and STEINS;GATE RE:BOOT in one shared universe.

Science and Engineering Research Board

Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), statutory Indian research funder under DST created by the SERB Act 2008; funded basic research via CRG, SRG, Ramanujan and J C Bose fellowships; dissolved under the ANRF Act 2023.

Science and inventions of Leonardo da Vinci

The science and inventions of Leonardo da Vinci survive in thousands of notebook pages on anatomy, flight, hydraulics, and machines, almost none of them built or published in his lifetime.

Science and technology in India

Science and technology in India, also known as Indian science and technology, is carried out by public research bodies, national missions in space and semiconductors, and a private sector that now funds most research.

Science and technology in the Philippines

Science and technology in the Philippines, or science in the Philippines, is coordinated by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), a cabinet-level agency created in 1987.

Science and technology studies

Science and technology studies (STS), also called Social Studies of Science and Technology, is an interdisciplinary field studying how science and technology are produced, organized, and governed.

Science Applications International Corporation

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) is an American technology integrator serving United States government defense, intelligence, space, and civilian customers, headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with about 24,000 employees.

Science Based Targets initiative

The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) is a charity that validates corporate emissions reduction targets against climate science, founded by CDP, the UN Global Compact, and WWF.

Science bulletin

Science Bulletin (科学通报) is a semimonthly English-language academic journal covering the natural sciences, sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Natural Science Foundation of China, continuing Chinese Science Bulletin from 2015.

Science Channel

Science Channel is an American pay television channel devoted to science, space, and technology, launched in 1996 and known for shows like MythBusters and How the Universe Works.

Science communication

Science communication is the exchange of information and viewpoints about science to achieve goals such as understanding or engagement. Also called public understanding of science, it spans deficit, dialogue, and participation models, and research shows communicating uncertainty generally builds trust in science.

Science diplomacy

Science diplomacy: use of science, scientific evidence, and scientific cooperation to support diplomatic objectives, and of diplomacy to support science. Also called global science cooperation; framed in three strands (science in, for, and diplomacy for science) since the 2010 Royal Society/AAAS report; EU framework adopted 2026.

Science diplomacy and pandemics

Science diplomacy and pandemics: how diplomacy for science, science for diplomacy, and science in diplomacy shape pandemic response, from the 1851 Sanitary Conference and WHO's IHRs to COVAX and the 2025 WHO Pandemic Agreement.

Science education

Science education, also called scientific education, is the teaching and learning of the natural sciences in schools and universities, with the goal of building scientific literacy.