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Scorched earth
Scorched earth is a defensive military strategy where forces destroy resources to deny them to an enemy. It was used by the Scythians and during Napoleon's 1812 invasion of Russia.
Scorched-earth policy of 1900–1902
The scorched-earth policy of 1900–1902 (verskroeide-aardebeleid) was the systematic British destruction of farms, livestock, and towns during the South African War, begun by Lord Roberts.
Scordisci
Scordisci (Greek Σκορδίσται), a Celtic tribe of the Danube–Sava confluence after 279 BCE, fought Rome for a century, submitted by 12 BCE, and survived as a Pannonian civitas.
SCORE (satellite)
SCORE, short for Signal Communication by Orbiting Relay Equipment, was an experimental United States communications satellite launched in December 1958, recognized as the first communications satellite.
Score distillation
Score distillation is a machine learning technique that uses a frozen diffusion model's denoising direction to optimize images or 3D scenes, best known from DreamFusion's 2022 text-to-3D.
Score Four
Score Four, also sold as Score 4 or 3-D Connect Four, is a 1968 three-dimensional board game where players slide beads onto pegs to make four in a row.
Score function
In statistics, the score function, or score, is the gradient of the log-likelihood with respect to a model's parameters, a term tracing to Ronald Fisher in 1922.
Score test
The score test, known in econometrics as the Lagrange multiplier test, is a statistical hypothesis test introduced by C. R. Rao in 1948 that requires fitting only the restricted model.
Score voting
Score voting, also called range voting, is a single-winner electoral method in which voters rate each candidate on a fixed numeric scale, and the highest total or average score wins.
Score-based generative models
Score-based generative models learn the score, the gradient of the data's log-probability, at many noise levels and generate samples by reversing a gradual noising process.
Scoresby Sound
Scoresby Sound (Kangertittivaq, Scoresby Sund), East Greenland's vast fjord system: world's largest, ~350 km long, 13,700 km², named by William Scoresby Jr. in 1822, with Ittoqqortoormiit its only town.
Scoria
Scoria is a dark-colored, highly vesicular volcanic rock formed when gas bubbles are trapped in solidifying magma; it builds cinder cones, sinks in water unlike pumice, and is crushed for lightweight concrete.
Scoring rule
A scoring rule is a function assigning a numerical score to a probabilistic forecast and the observed outcome, used to compare forecasters; a proper rule rewards stating one's true beliefs.
Scorn (2026 film)
Scorn (2026 film): upcoming erotic thriller written and directed by Sarah-Violet Bliss, starring Adria Arjona and Kingsley Ben-Adir; Topic Studios-financed, filmed in the UK January–February 2026, now in post-production. Distinct from the 2020 indie drama, the 2022 video game, and the John Wick spec script of the same name.
Scorn (video game)
Scorn is a 2022 first-person horror adventure game by Serbian studio Ebb Software, released October 14, 2022 on Xbox Series X|S and PC via Game Pass, PS5 in 2023. Giger- and Beksiński-inspired puzzle exploration with divisive combat; Metacritic 70.
Scorned (2013 film)
Scorned (2013) is an American revenge horror thriller directed by Mark Jones, written with Sadie Katz, starring Billy Zane, AnnaLynne McCord, and Viva Bianca; a woman torments her cheating boyfriend and best friend at a lake house.
Scorpaena porcus
Scorpaena porcus, the black scorpionfish, a benthic Scorpaenidae fish of the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean, ambush predator on crustaceans, targeted by Mediterranean coastal fisheries.
Scorpaenidae
Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes and rockfishes, is a family of mostly marine ray-finned fishes found in all tropical and temperate seas, whose dorsal, anal, and pelvic fin spines can bear venom glands.
Scorpène-class submarine
The Scorpène-class submarine is a diesel-electric attack submarine developed for the export market by France's DCN and Spain's Bazán, serving with five navies including Chile, India, and Brazil.
Scorpio Rising (film)
Scorpio Rising, Kenneth Anger's 1963 experimental short (about 28–31 minutes, 16mm), portrays a Brooklyn biker gang through montage and a 1960s pop soundtrack with no dialogue, mixing occult, homoerotic, Christian, and Nazi imagery; it survived a 1964 obscenity conviction and influenced Scorsese, Lynch, and the music video.
Scorpio Sky
Scorpio Sky (Schuyler Andrews, born 1983) is an American wrestler, AEW original, inaugural AEW World Tag Team Champion with Frankie Kazarian, two-time TNT Champion, former SCU and SkyFlight member.
Scorpion
Scorpiones, an arachnid order of over 2400 predatory species with pincers, a venomous tail stinger, and pectine sensory organs; Silurian fossil record, crown group 335–266 Mya.
Scorpion (Drake album)
Scorpion (2018) is Drake's fifth studio album, a 25-track, 90-minute double album split into a rap Side A and an R&B Side B. Released via Cash Money/Republic after the Pusha T feud, it hit 1 billion streams in a week and scored 67 on Metacritic.
Scorpion (Mortal Kombat)
Scorpion (Hanzo Hasashi) is the yellow-ninja mascot of Mortal Kombat, debuting in the 1992 arcade game. Known for his spear attack and Ed Boon's "Get over here!" line, he feuds with Sub-Zero across games, films, and animation.
Scorpion (TV series)
Scorpion is a CBS action-drama (2014-2018, four seasons) created by Nick Santora, inspired by self-proclaimed 197-IQ hacker Walter O'Brien, starring Elyes Gabel and Katharine McPhee as genius misfits solving high-tech threats for Homeland Security.
Scorpion I
Scorpion I, or Horus Scorpion I, is the conventional name for a late Predynastic Egyptian ruler of about 3200 BC, thought to be buried in tomb U-j at Abydos.
Scorpion II
Scorpion II (Horus Scorpion) is a possibly attested ruler of late Dynasty 0 in Egypt, fl. c. 3100 BC, known from the Scorpion Macehead found at Hierakonpolis.
Scorpion Macehead
The Scorpion Macehead, or Major Scorpion macehead, is a large limestone ceremonial mace-head found at Hierakonpolis in 1897–98, carved around 3100 BC and now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Scorpion sting
Scorpion sting: envenomation from scorpion stinger injection (scorpionism), a neglected tropical disease causing over 1.2 million stings and 3,000 deaths yearly; sodium-channel neurotoxins drive symptoms, with antivenom and prazosin as treatments.
Scorpion Therapeutics
Scorpion Therapeutics was a precision-oncology biotech company known for STX-478, a PI3Kα cancer drug Eli Lilly agreed to acquire in 2025 for up to $2.5 billion.