All articles starting with S

Slipper lobster

Slipper lobster (Scyllaridae), also shovel-nosed or Spanish lobster: flattened achelatan decapod crustaceans with plate-like antennae, phyllosoma larvae, Triassic fossils, and minor fisheries such as Thenus and Scyllarides.

Oct 22, 2026

Slippery liquid-infused porous surface

A slippery liquid-infused porous surface (SLIPS) is a porous solid infused with liquid lubricant that repels water, oils, ice, and blood, introduced at Harvard in 2011.

Slippery slope

Slippery slope argument (SSA), also called the slippery slope fallacy: an argument that an initial action will likely lead through stages to an unacceptable outcome. Variants are empirical, logical, conceptual; strength tracks probability, utility, and similarity between slope endpoints.

Slippery When Wet

Slippery When Wet, Bon Jovi's third studio album released August 18, 1986, recorded in Vancouver with Bruce Fairbairn; best-selling album of 1987, 15x Platinum RIAA, 28 million copies sold.

Oct 3, 2026

Slippin' Jimmy

Better Call Saul Presents: Slippin' Jimmy is a 2022 six-episode AMC+ animated prequel about young Jimmy McGill, the future Saul Goodman, scamming through 1970s Catholic school in Chicago with friend Marco; each short parodies a film genre.

Slipstream

A slipstream is the stream of fluid, typically air, flowing behind a moving body, especially the accelerated, swirling column behind an aircraft propeller, or in cycling, the reduced-drag wake behind another rider.

Slipway

A slipway is a sloping structure, inclined toward the water, on which ships are built and launched; the patent slip of 1818 hauls vessels out for cheap repair.

SLIT trial

SLIT trial (NCT05570383): randomized double-blind Chinese trial at People's Hospital of Anshun City, Guizhou, comparing Dermatophagoides farinae sublingual immunotherapy drops with mometasone furoate nasal spray in 60 adults with perennial allergic rhinitis, studying ILC1/2/3 mechanisms.

Sep 29, 2026

Slit-lamp examination

Slit-lamp examination, or slit-lamp biomicroscopy, is an ophthalmic exam using a binocular microscope and adjustable blade of light to inspect the eye from lids to fundus.

SLIT2

SLIT2 (slit guidance ligand 2, formerly SLIL3) is a chromosome 4 gene encoding a secreted Slit glycoprotein ligand of Robo receptors, cleaved into N- and C-terminal fragments, involved in axon guidance and linked to CAKUT kidney anomalies.

Slither (2006 film)

Slither (2006) is James Gunn's horror-comedy directorial debut about alien slugs invading Wheelsy, South Carolina, starring Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Banks, and Michael Rooker; a box-office flop that became a cult classic with an 87% Rotten Tomatoes score.

Slither.io

Slither.io: free-to-play multiplayer snake game launched March 2016 by Steve Howse (Lowtech Studios); eat pellets to grow, boost at 2x speed by shedding mass, kill rivals by head-on-body collisions; HTML5 servers hold 600 players.

Slitherlink

Slitherlink (数回), also called Loop the Loop, Fences, or Loopy, is a Nikoli logic puzzle from June 1989: draw one closed loop on a dot grid so each numbered cell has exactly that many edges on the loop; its solvability problem is NP-complete.

Slitless spectroscopy

Slitless spectroscopy is an astronomical technique in which a single exposure records spectra for every object in a field of view, with no entrance slit, the object itself acting as the slit.

Slitterhead

Slitterhead (野狗子) is a 2024 action-horror game by Bokeh Game Studio, Keiichiro Toyama's first post-Silent Hill title. Players possess humans as the Hyoki to fight monsters in Kowlong; Metacritic 62.

Sliver (film)

Sliver is a 1993 American erotic thriller directed by Phillip Noyce, starring Sharon Stone, William Baldwin, and Tom Berenger, adapted from Ira Levin's 1991 novel.

Slivovitz

Slivovitz (šljivovica, śliwowica, slivovice) is a central and eastern European plum brandy distilled from fermented damson plums, 40–60% ABV, a generic EU name, Serbia's national drink.

Sloan Digital Sky Survey

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is a long-running astronomical survey that has imaged and taken spectra of millions of stars, galaxies, and quasars since 1998.

Sloan Digital Sky Survey large-scale structure results

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey large-scale structure results are findings from SDSS's spectroscopic galaxy and quasar surveys, which used baryon acoustic oscillations to measure cosmic distances and dark energy from 2000 onward.

Sloan Great Wall

The Sloan Great Wall is a vast filament of galaxies about a billion light-years from Earth, identified in 2003 by J. Richard Gott III and Mario Jurić as then the largest known structure.

Sloane (given name)

Sloane is a modern English given name, mostly for girls, from the Irish surname Ó Sluaghadháin ("descendant of Sluaghadhán", from Sluaghadh, raider). US girls' rank peaked at #140 in 2022; about 98% of bearers are female.

Sloane Ranger

Sloane Ranger, also Sloane or Sloanie, a British informal label for a young upper-class Londoner in country-style clothes; coined by Peter York in Harpers & Queen, October 1975, from Sloane Square plus the Lone Ranger, and codified in the 1982 Official Sloane Ranger Handbook.

Sloane Stephens

Sloane Stephens (born 1993) is an American tennis player, 2017 US Open champion and 2018 French Open finalist who reached a career-high No. 3 ranking and won eight WTA singles titles including Miami 2018.

Slob on My Knob

"Slob on My Knob" ("Slob on My Nob") is a rap song by Juicy J of Three 6 Mafia, written in high school and known for its widely imitated hook.

Oct 22, 2026

Sloboda Cossack Regiments

The Sloboda Cossack Regiments (Слобідські козацькі полки) were five Cossack formations serving as both military units and administrative districts in Sloboda Ukraine until their abolition in 1764–65.

Oct 22, 2026

Sloboda Ukraine

Sloboda Ukraine, also called Slobozhanshchyna (Слобожанщина), was a historical region on Ukraine's eastern frontier, settled by Ukrainian Cossacks in the 17th century and organized into five regiments until Catherine II abolished its autonomy in 1765.