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Spetisbury Rings
Spetisbury Rings, also called Crawford Castle, is an Iron Age univallate hillfort of about 2 ha on the River Stour at Spetisbury, Dorset, known for a mass grave of at least 120 skeletons found in 1857 and scheduled as monument 1004563.
Spetsnaz (спецназ)
Spetsnaz (спецназ), Russian for "special purpose" forces, denotes the GRU-commanded Soviet and Russian special forces founded in 1950–1951 for deep reconnaissance and nuclear-target sabotage, later employed from Prague 1968 and Afghanistan to the degraded frontline use in Ukraine since 2022.
Spetsnaz GRU (Спецназ ГРУ)
Spetsnaz GRU (Спецназ ГРУ) are the special-purpose forces of Russia's military intelligence, the GRU/GU. Established October 24, 1950 with 46 companies, they conduct deep reconnaissance, sabotage, and direct action, from Afghanistan to Crimea and Ukraine.
Spexin
Spexin (neuropeptide Q, NPQ): a 14-amino acid neuropeptide discovered in 2007, encoded by C12orf29, signaling via GALR2/GALR3; anorexigenic peptide lower in obesity and type 2 diabetes.
Speybroeck Veronique Van
Véronique Van Speybroeck, born 1974, is a Belgian computational chemist, full professor at Ghent University, and head of its Center for Molecular Modeling, known for simulating catalysis in zeolites and metal-organic frameworks.
Speyer
Speyer (Spira), Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany: kreisfreie city of ~51,000 on the Rhine with Speyer Cathedral, the imperial Salian mausoleum, the ShUM Judenhof Jewish heritage site (UNESCO 2021), and the Technik Museum.
Speyer Cathedral
Speyer Cathedral (Speyerer Dom), formally the Cathedral of St. Mary and St. Stephen, is a Romanesque imperial basilica in Speyer, Germany, founded by Emperor Konrad II in 1030.
Speyside single malt
Speyside single malt: Single Malt Scotch Whisky from the River Spey region of north-east Scotland, legally defined under the Scotch Whisky Regulations 2009. Home to over half of Scotland's distilleries; light, fruity, floral, mostly unpeated style with sherry cask tradition.
Spezia Calcio
Spezia Calcio, Italian football club of La Spezia founded 1906, honorary 1944 Campionato Alta Italia winner, first promoted to Serie A in 2020 via play-offs, relegated 2023 and 2026 after ownership changes.
SPF-18
SPF-18 is a 2017 American coming-of-age romantic drama, Alex Israel's feature directorial debut co-written with Baywatch creator Michael Berk, starring Carson Meyer, Noah Centineo, and Bianca A. Santos, released on iTunes September 29, 2017 and later on Netflix.
SPG-9
The SPG-9, Russian СПГ-9 and nicknamed Kopye, is a Soviet 73 mm tripod-mounted recoilless gun adopted in 1962 to replace the B-10, still widely used for fire support.
SPH Engineering
SPH Engineering is a Latvian drone technology company founded in 2013 by Alexey Dobrovolskiy, known for UgCS flight-planning software, SkyHub onboard computers, and Drone Show Software.
SPH6162
SPH6162 (SPH-6162) is a preclinical WEE1-inhibitor small-molecule antitumor drug developed by Shanghai Pharmaceuticals' Central Research Institute; in October 2021 its ex-China rights were licensed to HUYABIO International for up to US$292.5 million plus 3-6% royalties, SPH's first overseas license-out.
Sphaera
Sphaera (Sphaera J. Sowerby, 1822) is an extinct genus of Cretaceous lucinid bivalves, type species S. corrugata, family Lucinidae, subfamily Fimbriinae; distinct from freshwater peaclams Sphaerium.
Sphaerobolus
Sphaerobolus, the artillery or cannonball fungus (Geastraceae, Basidiomycota), ejects a 1-mm gleba up to 6 m by osmotic membrane eversion; species include S. stellatus, S. iowensis, and S. ingoldii.
Sphaeroceridae
Sphaeroceridae (lesser dung flies, small dung flies) is a family of acalyptrate Diptera, 1-6 mm, with a swollen hind basitarsus; saprophagous flies of dung and decaying matter, about 1,550-plus described species worldwide.
Sphaerodactylus
Sphaerodactylus, the dwarf geckos, is a genus of tiny Neotropical geckos 20 to 35 mm long that live in leaf litter, most diverse in the Caribbean.
Sphaeropteris
Sphaeropteris (Bernhardi, 1801) is a genus of about 105 scaly tree ferns in Cyatheaceae, sister to all other genera and defined by conform scales, native from Mexico and the Caribbean to southern China and the South Pacific, absent from Africa and Madagascar.
Sphaerotheca
Sphaerotheca (Burrowing Frogs), a genus of nine South Asian dicroglossid frog species ranging from Pakistan and India to Sri Lanka and Myanmar, with active molecular taxonomic revision since 2017.
Sphaerotilus
Sphaerotilus, also Sphaerotilus natans, a genus of gram-negative sheathed filamentous bacteria in Betaproteobacteria; causes bulking in activated sludge, sheath gene sthA, related to Leptothrix.
Sphagnicolous organisms
Sphagnicolous organisms are the animals and microbes living in Sphagnum moss, including tyrphobiont spiders and beetles, nesting ants, mites, tardigrades, and testate amoebae; Peus coined tyrphobiont in 1928.
Sphagnum
Sphagnum, also known as peat moss, is a genus of some 250 to 380 moss species that dominates boreal wetlands and builds the peat beneath bogs.
Sphagnum capillifolium
Sphagnum capillifolium, acute-leaved bogmoss, a red hummock-forming peat moss of Northern Hemisphere bogs, closely related to and long confused with S. rubellum; NCBI taxid 128189, section Acutifolia.
Sphagnum cuspidatum
Sphagnum cuspidatum, Feathery Bog-moss (Ehrh. ex Hoffm.), the most aquatic British peat moss, grows submerged in acidic bog pools and ditches; fastest-growing Sphagnum, part of a species complex including S. viride.
Sphagnum fuscum
Sphagnum fuscum, rusty bog-moss (Rusty Bog-moss), a brown hummock-forming peat moss of boreal bogs; key peat former with 3–11.2 mm/yr shoot growth, 13-fold biomass response to warming, and Holarctic distribution.
Sphagnum moss as a wound dressing
Dried Sphagnum moss was used as an absorbent, mildly antiseptic surgical wound dressing, most extensively during the First World War, when it was at least twice as absorptive as cotton wool.
Sphagnum palustre
Sphagnum palustre (Blunt-leaved Bogmoss, prairie sphagnum; synonym S. cymbifolium) is a large diploid peat moss of section Sphagnum, widespread in Europe, Asia, and North America, with a wide pale stem cortex, 4-6 branches per fascicle, and varieties palustre and centrale.
Sphagnum papillosum
Sphagnum papillosum (Papillose Bog-moss, Lindb.) is a peat-forming bog moss of section Sphagnum, common on raised and blanket bogs, ochre-brown without red, identified by minute cell-wall papillae at x400.
Sphagnum sect. Rigida, Polyclada and Ambigua
Sphagnum sect. Rigida, Polyclada and Ambigua are groups of peat mosses. Sect. Rigida has five species worldwide except Antarctica, and sect. Polyclada contains the distinctive Sphagnum wulfianum.
Sphagnum sect. Sphagnum
Sphagnum sect. Sphagnum, the peat section, is a group of typically large, hummock-forming peat mosses including S. magellanicum, S. papillosum, S. palustre, and S. centrale.