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Scotland national rugby union team
Scotland national rugby union team, the men's side run by Scottish Rugby, played in the first international in 1871 at Raeburn Place, beating England; home is Murrayfield; last Five Nations winners in 1999.
Scotland the Brave
Scotland the Brave: Scottish patriotic song and bagpipe march, also called Brave Scotland or Scotland Forever; melody first printed 1895, lyrics by Cliff Hanley in the 1950s; unofficial Scottish anthem used at the Commonwealth Games until 2010.
Scotland Yard
Scotland Yard, the metonym for New Scotland Yard, is the headquarters of London's Metropolitan Police, founded 1829 at Great Scotland Yard; moves 1890, 1967, 2016; current site is Curtis Green, Victoria Embankment.
Scotland–North Ireland Pipeline (SNIP)
The Scotland–North Ireland Pipeline (SNIP) is a subsea gas pipeline from Twynholm, Scotland to Islandmagee, Northern Ireland, carrying almost all of Northern Ireland's natural gas.
Scotlandite
Scotlandite is a rare lead sulfite mineral, PbSO₃, the first naturally occurring sulfite mineral ever described, first found at Leadhills, Scotland, and approved in 1982.
Scotogenic model
The scotogenic model, introduced by Ernest Ma in 2006, is a Standard Model extension in which neutrino masses and a dark matter candidate arise from the same one-loop sector.
Scotoma
Scotoma: an area of absolute or partial vision loss within the visual field. Types include central, paracentral, arcuate, and scintillating scotomas; causes include glaucoma, macular disease, optic neuropathy, and migraine; mapped by perimetry and the Amsler grid.
Scotophilus
Scotophilus (yellow house bats, yellow bats), a genus of vesper bats (Vespertilionidae) named by Leach in 1821, with about 21 species across Africa, Madagascar, and Asia; S. kuhlii is basal and S. heathii nests within African lineages.
Scotoplanes
Scotoplanes, or sea pigs, are a genus of deep-sea elasipodid sea cucumbers (Elpidiidae) that walk on tube feet across abyssal mud worldwide at 550–6,700 m, feeding selectively on settled organic detritus.
Scots contract law
Scots contract law governs binding agreements in Scotland's mixed legal system. Its distinctive features are the absent consideration requirement and the binding unilateral promise (pollicitatio), confirmed in Regus and RBS v Carlyle, plus recent statutory reform.
Scots Guards
Scots Guards, a Foot Guards regiment of the British Army's Guards Division, raised 1642 by the 1st Marquess of Argyll for Charles I; now Light Mechanised Infantry at Catterick with ceremonial duties at royal residences.
Scots language
Scots (Scots leid) is a Germanic language of Lowland Scotland and Ulster, sister to English, descended from Northumbrian Old English. Over 1.5 million reported speaking it in the 2022 census, and the Scottish Languages Act 2025 gave it official status.
Scots law
Scots law is Scotland's non-codified mixed legal system, blending Roman-civilian tradition with English common law after the 1707 Union, shaped by institutional writers such as Stair and Erskine.
Scott (brand)
Scott, marketed in China as 适高, is an American paper products brand owned by Kimberly-Clark, best known for toilet paper, paper towels, and shop towels, descended from Scott Paper Company.
Scott (lunar crater)
Scott is a 107.82-km-diameter impact crater at 82.35° S, 48.52° E in the lunar southern polar highlands, near Amundsen and Shackleton craters; its satellite Scott-E shows geomorphic evidence of polar ice deposits.
Scott & Bailey
Scott & Bailey is an ITV British crime drama (2011–2016, five series, 33 episodes) created by Sally Wainwright and Diane Taylor from an idea by Suranne Jones and Sally Lindsay, starring Jones and Lesley Sharp as Manchester detectives Rachel Bailey and Janet Scott.
Scott A Hilderbrand
Scott A Hilderbrand, born 1976, is a chemist who developed fluorescent nitric oxide and zinc sensors, near-infrared imaging probes, and tetrazine bioorthogonal chemistry at MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital.
Scott A. Barnett
Scott A. Barnett is a materials scientist who has been a professor at Northwestern University since 1986, known for research on solid oxide fuel cells and electrolysis cells.
Scott A. Craver
Scott A. Craver is an American electrical and computer engineering professor at Binghamton University known for ambiguity attacks on watermarking and for helping break the 2000 SDMI challenge.
Scott A. Diddams
Scott A. Diddams is an American physicist known for optical frequency combs and clocks, formerly at NIST and now a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Scott A. Mabury
Scott A. Mabury, also published as Scott Mabury, is a Canadian environmental chemist at the University of Toronto known for tracing fluorinated "forever chemicals" in the Canadian Arctic.
Scott A. McLuckey
Scott A. McLuckey is an American analytical chemist at Purdue University, the John A. Leighty Distinguished Professor, known for gas-phase ion/ion reactions and protein-ion manipulation by mass spectrometry.
Scott A. Strobel
Scott A. Strobel is an American biochemist at Yale University, where he has served as provost since 2020 and is known for structural studies of RNA catalysis.
Scott A. Tomlins
Scott A. Tomlins is an American molecular pathologist known for discovering TMPRSS2:ETS gene fusions in prostate cancer and developing the MiPS urine test for its detection.
Scott Aaronson
Scott Aaronson is a theoretical computer scientist who holds the Schlumberger Centennial Chair at the University of Texas at Austin and directs its Quantum Information Center.
Scott Adams
Scott Adams (1957–2026), American cartoonist who created the syndicated strip Dilbert; author of The Dilbert Principle; Reuben Award 1997; dropped by syndication in 2023 after racist remarks; died of prostate cancer.
Scott Adkins
Scott Adkins, English actor and martial artist born in Birmingham, known as Yuri Boyka in the Undisputed series, Killa in John Wick: Chapter 4, and lead of direct-to-video action films; directing debut Brawler (2026).
Scott Adsit
Scott Adsit (born 1965, Northbrook, Illinois) is an American actor and improviser, a Second City alumnus, known as producer Pete Hornberger on 30 Rock (2006-13) and as the voice of Baymax in Disney's Oscar-winning Big Hero 6.
Scott Alexander
Scott Alexander is the pen name of Scott Siskind, a Bay Area psychiatrist and rationalist blogger who wrote Slate Star Codex (2013-2020), deleted it during a New York Times naming dispute, and relaunched as Astral Codex Ten.
Scott Alexander (Indiana politician)
Scott Alexander is an American politician and Republican member of the Indiana Senate representing District 26, elected in 2022; he also owns Alexander & Company Real Estate Appraisers.