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SkyReels

SkyReels is a family of open-weights, film-oriented video generation models developed by Skywork, first released in February 2025, spanning text-to-video, image-to-video, and talking avatars, and known for infinite-length generation.

Skyrme interaction

The Skyrme interaction is a zero-range, density-dependent effective nucleon–nucleon interaction introduced by T. H. R. Skyrme in 1956, the basis of the Skyrme–Hartree–Fock model used to compute binding energies, radii, and excitations across the nuclear chart.

Sep 29, 2026

Skyrme model

The Skyrme model, introduced by Tony Skyrme in 1961, is a nuclear physics model in which atomic nuclei are represented as topological solitons of a nonlinear pion field theory.

Skyrmion

A skyrmion is a particle-like nanoscale swirl in a material's magnetization, typically 1 to 100 nm wide, first observed in 2009 and a leading candidate for low-energy spintronic memory.

Skyrmion bags in liquid crystals and ferromagnets

Skyrmion bags are stable, particle-like topological solitons in which an arbitrary number of antiskyrmions is confined within a larger skyrmion, demonstrated in chiral liquid crystals and ferromagnets in 2019.

Skyrmion dynamics

Skyrmion dynamics is the study of how magnetic skyrmions, nanoscale whirl-like spin textures, are created, moved, and destroyed under stimuli such as currents, fields, and temperature gradients.

Skyrmion Hall effect

The skyrmion Hall effect is the sideways deflection of current-driven magnetic skyrmions, arising from the Magnus force on their topological charge, first observed experimentally in 2017 at Argonne National Laboratory.

Skyrmion logic

Skyrmion logic is a proposed spintronic computing technology in which Boolean logic operations are performed by moving nanoscale magnetic spin textures called skyrmions through nanowire tracks, encoding bits by their presence or absence.

Skyrmions in SrRuO3/SrIrO3

Skyrmions in SrRuO3/SrIrO3 are nanoscale topologically protected Néel-type magnetic spin textures, among the smallest reported, stabilized by interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in bilayers of ferromagnetic SrRuO3 and semimetal SrIrO3.

Oct 21, 2026

Skyros (settlement)

Skyros (settlement), ancient Scyros (Σκῦρος), the ancient town on Skyros island in the northern Sporades, co-located with the modern Chora; inhabited from Early Helladic times, famed for Palamari's Bronze Age fortified town and Athenian conquest under Cimon.

SkySat

SkySat is a commercial Earth-observation constellation of 21 high-resolution imaging satellites built by Skybox Imaging and operated by Planet Labs since 2017, delivering 50 cm imagery and full-motion video.

Skyscanner

Skyscanner is a travel metasearch engine founded in 2003 and headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland, comparing flight, hotel, and car rental prices before redirecting users to providers to book.

Skyscraper

A skyscraper is a tall, continuously occupiable multi-story building whose steel or concrete frame carries its weight, beginning with Chicago's Home Insurance Building of 1885.

Skyscraper (2018 film)

Skyscraper is a 2018 American action thriller directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber, starring Dwayne Johnson as a security consultant trapped in a burning Hong Kong skyscraper.

Skyscraper Live (2026)

Skyscraper Live (徒手独攀台北101：直播) is a 2026 Netflix live special in which free solo climber Alex Honnold ascended Taipei 101, 508 m, without ropes, streamed January 24, 2026 on a 10-second delay.

SkyServer

SkyServer is the web portal to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's catalog data, offering public access to images, spectra, and SQL queries for astronomers and science education.

SkyShowtime

SkyShowtime is a 50/50 Comcast-Paramount streaming joint venture for Europe, launched in the Nordics on 20 September 2022 and fully rolled out across 22 markets by 28 February 2023, aggregating Universal, Paramount+, SHOWTIME, Peacock, Nickelodeon, and Sky content in 19 languages, with about 10 million subscribers and roughly €1.3 billion in cumulative losses.

SkySpecs

SkySpecs is an Ann Arbor, Michigan company founded in 2012 that inspects wind turbine blades with autonomous drones and sells software to manage the resulting data.

SkyTeam

SkyTeam, also known as SkyTeam Alliance, is one of the three major global airline alliances, founded in 2000 by Aeromexico, Air France, Delta, and Korean Air.

Oct 21, 2026

Skythia Mons

Skythia Mons, a 249.62-km-diameter, 5.6-km-high tectonic mountain (mons) on Jupiter's moon Io at 26.33°N, 97.81°W, IAU-approved 1997, named for Scythia from the myth of Io's wanderings.

SkyTrain (Vancouver)

SkyTrain is the fully automated, driverless rapid transit system serving Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, first opened in 1985 for Expo 86 and now carrying about 350,000 passengers per weekday.

Skytrax

Skytrax, formerly Inflight Research Services, is a British air transport research organization founded in London in 1989 that rates airlines and airports from 1 to 5 stars.

Oct 21, 2026

Skytropolis Indoor Theme Park

Skytropolis Indoor Theme Park is an indoor amusement park at First World Plaza, Resorts World Genting, Genting Highlands, Malaysia. Opened in 2018 as Skytropolis Funland, it spans over 400,000 sq ft with more than 20 Family, Adventure, and Thrill rides, flat-rate tickets, and cashless SkyArcade.

Sep 19, 2026

Skyverse

Skyverse Technology (中科飞测) is a Chinese semiconductor inspection and metrology equipment maker in Shenzhen, founded in 2014 and listed on the STAR Market in 2023.

Skywalker family

Skywalker family, also the Skywalker clan or dynasty, is the fictional Star Wars family spanning all nine saga films from 1977, centered on Shmi, Anakin (Darth Vader), Luke, Leia, Ben Solo, and Rey, who adopts the name.

Skywalker Ranch

Skywalker Ranch is George Lucas's private Marin County, California estate and working ranch, home to Skywalker Sound's 153,000-square-foot Technical Building; built after 1980's Empire Strikes Back, it remains Lucas-owned after Disney's 2012 Lucasfilm purchase.