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Smule
Smule is an American social music technology company founded in 2008 by Jeff Smith and Ge Wang, known for its Sing! Karaoke app where users record solo, duet, and group performances.
Smurfette
Smurfette (Schtroumpfette) is the principal female Smurf in Peyo's Belgian comic franchise, created by Gargamel and made a real Smurf by Papa Smurf; she names the Smurfette principle of media criticism.
Smurfit Kappa
Smurfit Kappa was an Irish paper and packaging manufacturer formed in 2005 by the merger of Jefferson Smurfit Group with Kappa Packaging, headquartered in Dublin.
Smurfit Westrock
Smurfit Westrock is an Irish paper and corrugated packaging company formed on July 5, 2024, when Smurfit Kappa acquired WestRock, with about 100,000 employees in 40 countries.
Smurfs (film)
Smurfs, also known as The Smurfs Movie, is a 2025 American animated musical comedy film directed by Chris Miller, in which Rihanna voices Smurfette on a rescue mission after Papa Smurf is kidnapped.
Smurfs: The Lost Village
Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017) is Sony's fully CGI animated Smurfs film, directed by Kelly Asbury, starring Demi Lovato as Smurfette; it earned $197.5M worldwide and 41% on Rotten Tomatoes, the franchise's highest score.
Smurl haunting
The Smurl haunting: claimed demonic activity in Jack and Janet Smurl's West Pittston, Pennsylvania duplex, publicized in 1986, promoted by Ed and Lorraine Warren, investigated skeptically by CSICOP, and adapted in The Haunted (1988) and The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025).
Smush Parker
Smush Parker (William Parker, born 1981, New York) is an American former NBA point guard from Fordham, undrafted, who started for the 2005-07 Lakers alongside Kobe Bryant, with whom he feuded publicly.
Smut (fungus)
Smut (fungus): plant disease caused by over 1000 biotrophic teliospore-forming fungi (Ustilago, Tilletia) that replace host seeds with black spore masses; includes corn smut, loose smut, and common bunt of wheat.
SMYD3
SMYD3 (SET and MYND domain-containing 3), human lysine methyltransferase, EC 2.1.1.354; methylates H3K4, H4K5, H4K20 and non-histone targets MAP3K2, VEGFR1, HER2, AKT1; oncogenic in liver, colon, prostate, gastric cancers; inhibitors BCI-121, EPZ031686.
Smylie Kaufman
Smylie Kaufman (Carter Smylie Kaufman, born 1991), American golfer from Birmingham, Alabama; 2015 Shriners Hospitals for Children Open winner with a final-round 61, later an NBC Sports and Golf Channel on-course analyst and host of The Smylie Show.
Smyrna (Σμύρνη)
Smyrna (Σμύρνη), also Smyrne, was an ancient Greek city on the western coast of Asia Minor at modern İzmir, Turkey, ranking among the largest cities of Roman Asia.
Smyrna, Georgia
Smyrna, Georgia, the "Jonquil City," is a Cobb County city about 10 miles northwest of Atlanta, incorporated in 1872, with a 2020 census population of 55,663 and an ongoing downtown redevelopment.
Smyths
Smyths, trading as Smyths Toys Superstores, is an Irish family-owned chain of toy and games superstores with 311 outlets across Europe and record revenues of €2.53 billion in 2024.
SN 1006
SN 1006 was a supernova seen from Earth in 1006, probably the brightest stellar event in recorded history; its expanding debris lies about 7,000 light-years away in Lupus.
SN 1054
SN 1054, also called the Tianguan Guest Star, was a bright supernova in Taurus recorded by Chinese and Japanese astronomers in 1054; its remnant is the Crab Nebula.
SN 1572
SN 1572, also called Tycho's supernova or B Cassiopeiae, was a Type Ia supernova that appeared in Cassiopeia in 1572 and was observed by Tycho Brahe.
SN 185
SN 185, also known as the supernova remnant RCW 86, was a Type Ia supernova about 8,000 light-years away in Circinus, recorded by Chinese astronomers at Lo-Yang in 185.
SN 1979C
SN 1979C is a Type II-L supernova discovered by amateur astronomer Gus Johnson in 1979 in the galaxy M100, about 50 million light-years away in the Virgo cluster.
SN 1986G
SN 1986G was a peculiar Type Ia supernova discovered by Evans in 1986 in the dust lane of NGC 5128 (Centaurus A), remarkable for its fast decline.
SN 1987A
SN 1987A was a core-collapse supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud whose light reached Earth in 1987, the closest observed since the telescope's invention and the first supernova whose neutrinos were detected.
SN 1991bg
SN 1991bg was a strongly subluminous, peculiar Type Ia supernova that exploded in 1991 in the elliptical galaxy NGC 4374 in the Virgo cluster, giving its name to a subclass.
SN 1991T
SN 1991T was a peculiar, luminous Type Ia supernova discovered in April 1991 in the spiral galaxy NGC 4527, the prototype of the 1991T-like subclass of Type Ia supernovae.
SN 1993J
SN 1993J was a Type IIb supernova discovered on 28 March 1993 in the nearby galaxy M81, and the first supernova whose progenitor came from a binary system.
SN 1994D
SN 1994D was a Type Ia supernova that exploded in NGC 4526, a lenticular galaxy in the Virgo cluster, and became one of the best-observed supernovae of its type.
SN 1998bw
SN 1998bw is an unusually energetic Type Ic supernova discovered in April 1998 in the spiral galaxy ESO 184-G82, and the first supernova linked to a gamma-ray burst, GRB 980425.
SN 1998S
SN 1998S was a Type IIn supernova discovered in the galaxy NGC 3877 in March 1998, one of the brightest and best-studied examples of its class.
SN 1999em
SN 1999em was a Type II-plateau core-collapse supernova discovered in October 1999 in the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 1637, and became one of the most thoroughly observed of its type.
SN 2002ap
SN 2002ap was an energetic Type Ic supernova, or hypernova, discovered in January 2002 by Japanese amateur astronomer Yoji Hirose in the nearby spiral galaxy M74.
SN 2003dh
SN 2003dh was a Type Ic hypernova that appeared in March 2003 in the afterglow of GRB 030329, giving the first spectroscopic confirmation that some gamma-ray bursts come from supernovae.