All articles starting with S
44,216 articles
Soho
Soho, a central London West End district in Westminster, known for nightlife, restaurants, LGBTQ+ venues, and Chinatown; built up from the late 17th century, site of the 1854 cholera outbreak, and a focus of gentrification and licensing debates.
Soho House (club)
Soho House (club), also Soho House & Co, is a private members' club chain for creatives founded by Nick Jones in London in 1995, with about 48 Houses, tiered memberships, Cecconi's restaurants, and a 2025 £2bn take-private by MCR Hotels.
SoHo, Manhattan
SoHo (South of Houston Street) is a Lower Manhattan neighborhood known for its cast-iron architecture, 1973 historic district, artist-loft history, M1-5 zoning, and high-end retail, recently rezoned for housing.
Sohr Damb
Sohr Damb is an archaeological mound near Nal in Balochistan, Pakistan, the type site of the pre-Indus Nal complex, occupied from about 3800 to 2000 BC.
Sohrab Moradi
Sohrab Moradi (سهراب مرادی), Iranian Olympic champion weightlifter born 1988 in Sedeh Lenjan; gold at Rio 2016 in 94 kg, world records in 94 kg and 96 kg classes, six world titles.
Sohrab Pournazeri
Sohrab Pournazeri (سهراب پورناظری) is an Iranian composer and virtuoso of the tanbour, kamancheh, and setar, best known for his classical-pop duo with singer Homayoun Shajarian.
Sohrab Sepehri
Sohrab Sepehri (سهراب سپهری, 1928–1980) was an Iranian modernist poet and painter whose collected poems, Hašt ketāb (Eight Books), are among the most popular in Persian new poetry.
Sohrab Shah
Sohrab P. Shah is a computational oncologist who studies how cancers evolve cell by cell, known for PyClone and single-cell studies of breast and ovarian cancer.
Sohu
Sohu (搜狐) is a Chinese internet company founded by Charles Zhang in the 1990s, once one of China's three major web portals and now mainly a games business.
Sohyang (김소향)
Sohyang (소향, Kim So-hyang), South Korean CCM-to-pop singer born 1978, debuted 1996 with POS, broke through on I'm A Singer 2 (2012), four-octave voice, first Korean to sing the US anthem at an NBA game, joined KQ Entertainment in 2025.
Sohyun Ahn
Sohyun Ahn is a South Korean-born neuroscientist who heads the Unit on Developmental Neurogenetics at NIH's NICHD and won a 2005 Presidential Early Career Award.
Soi (crater on Titan)
Soi is a 75-km-diameter impact crater on Titan at 24.3°N, 140.9°W, named for a Melanesian god of wisdom and adopted by the IAU in 2012. It is the shallowest, flattest known Titan crater (depth 0.24 ± 0.11 km) and anchors a mapped region spanning Titan's equatorial-to-midlatitude transition.
SoIC (TSMC)
SoIC (System on Integrated Chips) is TSMC's 3D chip-stacking technology, joining chiplets with bumpless copper-to-copper hybrid bonding; it entered volume production in 2022 in AMD's 3D V-Cache.
Sōichi Kakeya
Sōichi Kakeya (掛谷宗一, 1886–1947) was a Japanese mathematician who posed the Kakeya needle problem in 1917 and proved the 1912 Eneström–Kakeya theorem on roots of algebraic equations.
Soichi Oya
Soichi Oya (大宅壮一, 1900–1970) was a Japanese critic and journalist famed for coining catchphrases about the mass-media age, above all his jab at early television, "turning the 100 million into idiots."
Soichi Terada
Soichi Terada (寺田創一, born 1965 in Tokyo) is a Japanese electronic producer and DJ who co-founded Far East Recording in 1989 and composed the Ape Escape game soundtracks.
Soichiro Honda (本田宗一郎)
Soichiro Honda (本田宗一郎, 1906–1991) was a Japanese engineer and industrialist who founded Honda Motor in 1948, building it into the world's largest motorcycle producer and holding more than 100 patents.
Soichiro Minami
Soichiro Minami (南壮一郎), born in 1976, is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded the BizReach recruiting service in Tokyo in 2007 and now leads its parent company, Visional.
Soichiro Yamauchi
Soichiro Yamauchi is a Japanese musician who fronted Fujifabric until 2025 and began his solo career under the project A-UN, releasing albums like 『A』.
Soil
Soil is the unconsolidated mineral and organic material on Earth's surface that serves as the natural medium for land plants, formed over hundreds to thousands of years.
Soil acidification
Soil acidification is the process by which soil pH declines over time, affecting roughly 30 to 40 percent of agricultural land globally, with liming as the main remedy.
Soil and Water Assessment Tool
The Soil and Water Assessment Tool, or SWAT, is a public-domain watershed model that predicts how management decisions affect water, sediment, nutrient, and pesticide yields.
Soil and Water Conservation Society
Soil and Water Conservation Society (SWCS), international nonprofit for conservation professionals founded as the Soil Conservation Society of America (first meeting 1946), based in Ankeny, Iowa, publisher of the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation.
Soil augering
Soil augering is a field method of obtaining soil samples from depth by rotating a boring tool into the ground without excavating a pit, used widely in soil mapping.
Soil catena
A soil catena is a sequence of related soils along a hillslope, from hilltop to valley floor, that share parent material and age but differ because of drainage.
Soil classification
Soil classification is the systematic grouping of soils into named categories based on measurable properties, dominated by USDA Soil Taxonomy with 12 orders and the international World Reference Base.
Soil compaction
Soil compaction is the pressing together of soil particles under surface pressure, reducing pore space and increasing bulk density; in farming it degrades soil, while construction induces it deliberately.
Soil conservation
Soil conservation: practices preventing soil erosion, compaction, salinization, and fertility loss through cover crops, conservation tillage, terraces, windbreaks, and hedgerows; FAO's 2026 assessment finds erosion the worst threat and adoption lagging.
Soil contamination
Soil contamination, also known as soil pollution, is the presence of chemicals in soil above natural background levels, posing risks to human health, ecosystems, food, and water.
Soil erosion
Soil erosion is the removal of the nutrient-rich surface soil by water and wind; accelerated erosion from human activity degrades farmland and fills rivers and reservoirs with sediment.