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Scrubs: Interns

Scrubs: Interns is a 2009 ABC webisode series of 12 shorts on ABC.com tied to Scrubs Season Eight, following intern Sonja "Sunny" Dey's video diary of the new Sacred Heart intern class, distinct from the 2026 Scrubs revival.

Scruff (app)

Scruff is a dating and social-networking app for gay, bi, trans, and queer people, launched in 2010 by Johnny Skandros and Eric Silverberg and known for removing third-party advertising in 2018.

Scrum (rugby)

Scrum (rugby): set-piece restart in rugby union (eight contested forwards per side, Law 19) and rugby league (six, uncontested). Covers formation, crouch-bind-set engagement, injury biomechanics, resets, and history from the 2-3-2 scrum to 2025 law trials.

Scrum (software development)

Scrum, or Scrum methodology, is an Agile software development framework in which one self-managing team works in fixed-length iterations called Sprints, presented by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland in 1995.

Scrunchie

Scrunchie (シュシュ, from French chouchou): a fabric-covered elastic hair tie invented by Rommy Hunt Revson in 1986 as "Scunci," after her poodle. Gentle on hair versus bare elastics; a USD 585.6 million global market in 2025 with recurring fashion revivals.

Scrupulosity

Scrupulosity, also called religious OCD, is a subtype of obsessive-compulsive disorder centered on religious or moral obsessions such as fear of sin, with compulsive prayer, confession, reassurance seeking, and ERP-based treatment.

Scrutiny

Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review was an influential literary-criticism journal published quarterly in Cambridge, England, from 1932 to 1953, edited by F. R. Leavis and known for close reading and evaluative criticism.

Scrying

Scrying, also spelled skry, is a form of divination in which a practitioner gazes into a reflective surface such as a crystal ball, mirror, or water and interprets the visions that appear.

Scrypt

Scrypt is a password-based key derivation function created by Colin Percival in 2009. It is memory-hard, raising the cost of brute-force attacks on custom hardware.

SCSI

SCSI (Small Computer System Interface, commonly pronounced "scuzzy") is a standard for connecting computers to peripheral devices like hard drives and scanners, first standardized by ANSI in 1986.

SCSK Corporation

SCSK Corporation is a Japanese IT services company headquartered in Tokyo, a member of the Sumitomo Corporation Group, formed in 2011 by merging Sumisho Computer Systems and CSK.

SCTV01C / Anningneng 2 (recombinant bivalent COVID-19 trimer protein vaccine)

SCTV01C (安诺能 2, Annuoneng 2) is Sinocelltech's bivalent recombinant S-trimer COVID-19 vaccine targeting Alpha and Beta variants with SCT-VA02B squalene adjuvant; EUA in China December 2022 as booster.

SCTV01E (recombinant tetravalent COVID-19 trimer protein vaccine)

SCTV01E (安诺能®4) is Sinocelltech's tetravalent recombinant S-trimer protein COVID-19 vaccine targeting Alpha, Beta, Delta, and Omicron BA.1; 30 µg with SCT-VA02B adjuvant, 69.4% efficacy, Chinese EUA March 2023.

Scuba diving

Scuba diving is underwater diving with a self-contained underwater breathing apparatus, independent of surface supply. Developed via Cousteau and Gagnan's 1940s Aqua-Lung; recreational limit 40 m (130 ft); main risks are decompression sickness and nitrogen narcosis.

Scuba set

A scuba set is a self-contained underwater breathing apparatus that lets a diver breathe underwater from a compressed gas supply, without any connection to the surface.

Scud missile

The Scud missile, NATO's name for Soviet short-range ballistic missiles first fielded in 1955, became the most proliferated ballistic missile in history and inspired many derivatives.

Scuderia AlphaTauri

Scuderia AlphaTauri, Red Bull's Faenza-based F1 team (ex-Toro Rosso, ex-Minardi), raced 2020–2023: Gasly's Monza win, best finish 6th with 142 points in 2021, then rebranded Visa Cash App RB (2024) and Racing Bulls (2025).

Scuderia Ferrari

Scuderia Ferrari, Ferrari's Formula 1 team, founded by Enzo Ferrari in Modena 1929, based in Maranello since 1943; only team in every F1 season since 1950, with 16 constructors' titles, 251 wins, drivers Leclerc and Hamilton, team chief Vasseur.

Scuderia Toro Rosso

Scuderia Toro Rosso, also known as Toro Rosso, was Red Bull's junior Formula One team based in Faenza, Italy, racing from 2006 to 2019 before becoming AlphaTauri.

Sculling

Sculling: rowing with two oars per rower, one in each hand, denoted "x" in boat classes; contrasted with sweep rowing (one oar). Includes oar lengths, stroke phases, and history.

Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy

The Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy, also known as the Sculptor Dwarf Elliptical, is a dwarf spheroidal satellite of the Milky Way in the constellation Sculptor, about 280,000 light-years from Earth.

Sculptor Real Estate

Sculptor Real Estate is the New York real estate private equity platform of Sculptor Capital Management, founded by Steven Orbuch in 2003 and owned by Rithm Capital since 2023.

Sculpture

Sculpture is three-dimensional art made by carving, modeling, casting, or assembling materials such as stone, bronze, clay, and wood, produced as unique objects or numbered editions, with a history reaching back to around 32,000 BCE and expanding today through digital fabrication.

Sculpture (mollusc)

Sculpture (mollusc): the relief pattern of ribs, grooves, spines, and scales on mollusc shells, formed by mantle growth, graded by conchological terms, and used widely in species identification and paleontology.

Sculpture in India

Sculpture in India is the tradition of three-dimensional art in stone, bronze, and terracotta, serving Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain religion from about 2500 BCE onward.

Scum (film)

Scum is a 1979 British borstal drama by Alan Clarke, written by Roy Minton, starring Ray Winstone as Carlin; a remake of his banned 1977 BBC Play for Today, finally broadcast in 1991.

Scum (video game)

Scum (SCUM) is an open-world survival game by Croatian studio Gamepires, Early Access 29 August 2018, 1.0 on 17 June 2025. Known for its detailed metabolism and body simulation, 225 km² Croatian-inspired island, Puppets, and PvP; later acquired by Splash Damage.

SCUM Manifesto

SCUM Manifesto, by Valerie Solanas (Society for Cutting Up Men), is a 1967 self-published radical feminist tract calling for eliminating the male sex; it gained notoriety after Solanas shot Andy Warhol in 1968.

Scum of the Brave (勇者のクズ)

Scum of the Brave (勇者のクズ) is a Japanese action fantasy by Rocket Shokai about ether-enhanced mafia Demon Kings and drug-fueled bounty-hunter Heroes in future Tokyo; it won the first Kakuyomu contest, became a hit self-published manga, and aired as a 24-episode OLM anime in 2026.

Scum's Wish

Scum's Wish (Kuzu no Honkai, クズの本懐) is a romance manga by Mengo Yokoyari, serialized in Monthly Big Gangan 2012–2017, about substitute lovers Hanabi and Mugi; adapted into a 2017 noitamina anime by Lerche and a Fuji TV drama, with sequel Décor as volume 9.