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Sonoluminescence
Sonoluminescence is the emission of short light flashes from gas bubbles collapsing in a liquid under intense sound, arising from acoustic cavitation and studied since 1962.
Sonoma County, California
Sonoma County, California: Northern California wine county of 1,800 square miles with 19 AVAs, nearly 60,000 vineyard acres, 425+ wineries, known for Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Dry Creek Zinfandel.
Sonoma Raceway
Sonoma Raceway, formerly Sears Point Raceway and Infineon Raceway, is a motorsports complex in Sonoma, California, opened in 1968, with a 2.52-mile road course and drag strip.
Sonoma State University
Sonoma State University (SSU), founded 1960 as Sonoma State College in Rohnert Park, California, is a California State University campus serving the North Bay; WSCUC-accredited since 1969, now under a Notice of Concern.
Sonoma, California
Sonoma, California: small Sonoma County city (pop. about 10,500) around Mission San Francisco Solano, founded 1823, and site of the 1846 Bear Flag Revolt and the short-lived California Republic.
Sonoporation
Sonoporation is a delivery technique that uses ultrasound, usually with gas-filled microbubbles, to create transient pores in cell membranes so drugs, genes, proteins, and nanoparticles can enter living cells.
Sonora
Sonora, Mexico's second largest state (9.1% of national territory), capital Hermosillo, borders Arizona. Mining (copper, lithium, gold), export manufacturing, Yaqui and Mayo valley agriculture, and 38.2% of national fisheries output.
Sonora Cartel
Sonora Cartel: 1990s Mexican drug trafficking organization identified with Rafael Caro Quintero in Sonora state; its successor groups, the Caborca Cartel and Nuevo Cártel Independiente de Sonora, now fight Los Chapitos for the border desert.
Sonora Matancera
La Sonora Matancera is a Cuban ensemble founded in Matanzas in 1924 by Valentín Cané, best known for Celia Cruz, its lead singer from 1950 to 1965.
Sonora Santanera
La Sonora Santanera is a Mexican tropical orchestra founded in Mexico City in 1955, best known for "La Boa" and 70 years of cumbia and bolero.
Sonora Santanera de Carlos Colorado
Sonora Santanera de Carlos Colorado is a Mexican tropical orchestra that continues the Sonora Santanera founded by Carlos Colorado in 1955, fronted by singer María Fernanda.
Sonoran Desert
The Sonoran Desert is a subtropical desert of about 260,000 sq km in southern Arizona, southeastern California, Sonora, and Baja California, defined by bimodal winter and summer monsoon rains, saguaro cacti, sky islands, and the greatest species diversity of any North American desert.
Sonos
Sonos, Inc. is an American consumer audio company headquartered in Santa Barbara, California, that makes wireless speakers, soundbars, and headphones for a multi-room audio system controlled by its app.
SonoThera
SonoThera is a South San Francisco biotechnology company, launched in 2022, that develops ultrasound-mediated nonviral genetic medicines for Duchenne muscular dystrophy and polycystic kidney disease.
Sonovate
Sonovate, incorporated in 2011 as Rectrader Limited, is a British fintech company headquartered in Cardiff and London that provides invoice finance and back-office payments for the contingent workforce.
Sonoya Mizuno (水野ソノヤ)
Sonoya Mizuno (水野ソノヤ), British-Japanese actress, model, and former Royal Ballet School dancer; known as Kyoko in Ex Machina, Lily Chan in Devs, and Mysaria in House of the Dragon; directing debut Stages.
Sonray Music
Sonray Music (ซันเรย์ มิวสิค) is a Thai record label and idol agency in Bangkok, the music label arm of TADA Entertainment and home of the boy group BUS.
Sonrotoclax
Sonrotoclax (BGB-11417, Beqalzi) is BeOne Medicines' oral Bcl-2 inhibitor, FDA accelerated approval May 2026 for relapsed/refractory mantle cell lymphoma after BTK inhibitor therapy; ORR 52%.
Sons (2024 film)
Sons (Vogter), 2024 Danish-Swedish prison thriller by Gustav Möller, starring Sidse Babett Knudsen; premiered in Berlinale competition 22 February 2024, Golden Bear nominee.
Sons (儿子（1996年电影）) (1996 film)
Sons (儿子) is Zhang Yuan's 1996 Chinese docu-drama in which the real Li family of Beijing plays itself amid the father's alcoholism; it won the Tiger Award and FIPRESCI prize at the 1996 Rotterdam festival and was never publicly screened in mainland China.
Sons and Lovers
Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence's third novel (Duckworth, 1913), is a semi-autobiographical Nottinghamshire Bildungsroman about Paul Morel's possessive mother, Miriam, and Clara, and the most psychoanalytically scrutinized of Lawrence's novels.
Sons for the Return Home
Sons for the Return Home is a 1973 novel by the Samoan writer Albert Wendt, telling of a Samoan family's migration to New Zealand and a doomed interracial love affair.
Sons of Anarchy
Sons of Anarchy (SAMCRO) is Kurt Sutter's FX crime drama (2008–2014, 7 seasons, 92 episodes) about an outlaw motorcycle club in Charming, California, a Hamlet-inspired gunrunning saga starring Charlie Hunnam, with spin-off Mayans M.C.
Sons of Apollo
Sons of Apollo: American progressive metal supergroup formed 2017 by ex-Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy and Derek Sherinian with Billy Sheehan, Bumblefoot, and Jeff Scott Soto; albums Psychotic Symphony (2017) and MMXX (2020), later split up.
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV), hereditary neo-Confederate organization founded 1896 in Richmond, Virginia, for male descendants of Confederate soldiers; promotes Lost Cause claims denying slavery as the Civil War's cause and defends Confederate monuments.
Sons of David
The sons of David are King David's male children in the Hebrew Bible, at least 19 sons, and by extension his dynasty, the House of David.
Sons of God (בְּנֵי הָאֱלֹהִים)
Sons of God (בְּנֵי הָאֱלֹהִים, Bene Elohim) is a Hebrew Bible phrase for members of the divine assembly, appearing in Genesis 6, Job, and the Psalms.
Sons of Guns
Sons of Guns was an American reality television series on the Discovery Channel from 2011 to 2014, following Red Jacket Firearms, a custom gun shop in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Sons of Kemet
Sons of Kemet (Sons Of Kemet), a South London jazz quartet led by Shabaka Hutchings with tuba and two drummers, active 2011-2022, Mercury-nominated for Your Queen Is a Reptile, disbanded after final 2022 shows.
Sons of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty were Patriot resistance groups formed in Boston in 1765 against the Stamp Act, led by artisans and merchants, famous for the 1773 Boston Tea Party and named from Isaac Barré's parliamentary speech.