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Silva Arslanian
Silva A. Arslanian is a pediatric endocrinologist at the University of Pittsburgh who studies type 2 diabetes and obesity in youth, leading GLP-1 medication trials including liraglutide and semaglutide.
Silva Kaputikyan
Silva Kaputikyan (Սիլվա Կապուտիկյան), real name Sirvard, was an Armenian poet and public figure, born and died in Yerevan, best known for the poem "A Word to My Son."
Silva Method
Silva Method (originally Silva Mind Control), self-help and meditation program created by José Silva in Laredo, Texas, launched 1966; teaches alpha-state relaxation, visualization, and self-suggestion. Its paranormal claims (telepathy, remote healing) lack controlled scientific support.
Silva Mexes
Silva Mexes (Silva Mexes Tyler-Earnshaw, ซิลวา เม็กเซส ไทเลอร์), born 2010, Thai-English youth winger, son of Robert Earnshaw; Ipswich and Manchester United academies, Leeds United U18 from 2026; 3 Thailand U17 caps, 1 goal.
SILVA ribosomal RNA database
SILVA is a curated, regularly updated database of aligned 16S/18S (SSU) and 23S/28S (LSU) rRNA sequences for Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya, hosted by DSMZ; release 144 (2026) holds 905,628 SSU Ref NR99 sequences and ships DADA2, Kraken2, MEGAN, and Qiime2 classifiers.
Silvaco
Silvaco is a Santa Clara, California-based provider of technology computer-aided design (TCAD) and EDA software and semiconductor IP, founded in 1984 and public on Nasdaq since May 2024.
Silvae
The Silvae, Latin for "woods" or "raw material," are 32 occasional poems in five books by the Roman poet Statius, written probably between 89 and 96 CE.
Silvana Cruciata
Silvana Cruciata (born 1953, Napoli) is an Italian distance runner, 1976 Olympic 1,500 m heat eliminee, 1981 World Cup 3,000 m bronze medallist, and one-hour run world record holder at 18.084 km.
Silvana Mangano
Silvana Mangano (1930–1989), Italian film actress, star of Bitter Rice (Riso amaro, 1949), wife of producer Dino De Laurentiis, three-time David di Donatello winner, muse of Pasolini and Visconti, died in Madrid.
Silvana sin lana
Silvana sin lana is a 2016 Telemundo telenovela, the US adaptation of Chile's Pituca sin lucas, starring Maritza Rodríguez, Carlos Ponce, and Adriana Barraza; 121 Miami-filmed episodes aired 2016–2017.
Silvanidae
Silvanidae (silvanid flat bark beetles, grain beetles), family Kirby 1837 of Cucujoidea: about 58-61 genera, 500 species, two subfamilies, cosmopolitan except Antarctica; mostly fungivorous under bark, with Oryzaephilus stored-grain pests.
Silvano De Franceschi
Silvano De Franceschi, born in Milan in 1970, is an Italian experimental physicist at CEA Grenoble known for Kondo-effect work in carbon nanotubes and pioneering hole spin qubits.
Silvassa
Silvassa (Gujarati: સેલ્વાસ) is the capital of India's Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, an industrial town between Gujarat and Maharashtra; 98,265 residents (2011), liberated from Portuguese rule in 1954.
Silver
Silver (symbol Ag, from the Latin argentum) is a soft, lustrous white metallic element with atomic number 47, prized since prehistoric times for coinage, jewelry, and tableware.
Silver acetylide
Silver acetylide, also called silver carbide (Ag2C2), is the silver salt of acetylene, an explosive white solid best known as the precipitate that identifies terminal alkynes.
Silver Age of Comic Books
Silver Age of Comic Books, roughly 1956 to early 1970s, period of superhero revival in American comics, begun with DC's Flash in Showcase #4, shaped by the Comics Code Authority and Marvel's rise under Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
Silver Age of Latin literature
The Silver Age of Latin literature is the period of Latin writing after Augustus's death in A.D. 14, whose principal authors include Seneca, Lucan, Martial, Juvenal, and Tacitus.
Silver Age of Russian Poetry
The Silver Age of Russian Poetry (Серебряный век) is the era of modernist Russian poetry from the mid-1890s to 1917, named for the Golden Age of Pushkin.
Silver Airways
Silver Airways was a regional airline based in Hollywood, Florida, that flew within Florida and to the Bahamas and the Caribbean from 2011 until ceasing operations in June 2025.
Silver Alert
Silver Alert: US state-level public alert programs modeled on AMBER Alert that broadcast information about missing older adults with dementia or cognitive impairment via media, radio, and highway signs, with criteria and adoption varying by state.
Silver antimony telluride
Silver antimony telluride thermoelectrics concern AgSbTe₂, a p-type semiconductor that converts heat into electricity between about 473 and 673 K, combining an intrinsically low thermal conductivity with a high Seebeck coefficient.
Silver Apples
Silver Apples: New York experimental duo (1967) of Simeon Coxe and Danny Taylor, pioneers of electronic rock using the homemade oscillator instrument the Simeon; albums Silver Apples (1968) and Contact (1969).
Silver Arrows
Silver Arrows (Silberpfeile): the silver Grand Prix cars of Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union that dominated European racing 1934–1939 under the 750 kg formula, debuting at Avus on May 27, 1934; the name continues with Mercedes' modern F1 team.
Silver as an investment
Silver as an investment is the purchase of silver or silver-linked financial instruments to preserve or increase wealth, through bullion, trusts, futures, or mining shares.
Silver Banshee
Silver Banshee (Siobhan McDougal, later Siobhan Smythe) is a DC Comics supervillain created by John Byrne, debuting in Action Comics #595 (1987); a cursed Irish woman whose magical death wail kills anyone whose identity she knows, an enemy of Superman and Supergirl.
Silver Bleeds the Black Sun...
Silver Bleeds the Black Sun... is AFI's twelfth studio album (Run for Cover Records, October 3, 2025), a gothic rock and post-punk record influenced by The Cure, Bauhaus, and Sisters of Mercy, scoring a 79 Metascore.
Silver Bridge
The Silver Bridge, also called the Point Pleasant Bridge, carried US Route 35 over the Ohio River from 1928 until its 1967 collapse, which killed 46 people.
Silver bromide
Silver bromide (AgBr) is a pale yellow, light-sensitive silver salt, found naturally as the mineral bromargyrite, that served as the working material of black-and-white photographic film and paper.
Silver bullet
Silver bullet: literally a silver projectile of werewolf folklore, figuratively a simple, seemingly magical fix for a hard problem, used mostly negatively; idiom recorded 1930-35, popularized by Fred Brooks's 1986 essay No Silver Bullet.
Silver Bullet (film)
Silver Bullet, also known as Stephen King's Silver Bullet, is a 1985 American werewolf horror film directed by Daniel Attias and written by Stephen King.