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Sterile neutrino
A sterile neutrino, also called a right-handed neutrino, is a hypothetical fourth neutrino that would not interact via the weak force and remains undetected as of 2025.
Sterility testing
Sterility testing is a microbiological quality-control method that incubates pharmaceutical products or medical devices in culture media to detect contaminating bacteria or fungi before batch release.
Sterilization (medicine)
Sterilization (medicine): permanent surgical contraception via tubal ligation or salpingectomy in women and vasectomy in men; over 220 million couples use it, with first-year failure rates of 0.5% (tubal) and 0.15% (vasectomy).
Sterilization (microbiology)
Sterilization in microbiology is the process that destroys all forms of microbial life, including bacterial spores, most dependably by saturated steam under pressure in an autoclave.
Sterilization of Native American women
Sterilization of Native American women: IHS-performed procedures, 1960s-1970s, often without informed consent; GAO found 3,406 sterilizations in four service areas, 1973-1976; ended by 1978 HEW regulations.
Sterilization Reversal
Sterilization reversal (tubal reanastomosis, vasectomy reversal) surgically restores fertility after sterilization; pregnancy rates 42–69% after tubal reversal, 49% after vasectomy reversal, compared with IVF.
Steris
Steris plc is an Ireland-domiciled medical equipment and sterilization services company, reporting in Healthcare, Applied Sterilization Technologies, and Life Sciences segments with fiscal 2026 revenue of $5.9 billion.
Sterl Phinney
Sterl Phinney, publishing as E. S. Phinney, is a theoretical astrophysicist and Caltech professor whose 1991 estimate of neutron star merger rates shaped LIGO, and who led LISA's science definition.
Sterley Stanley
Sterley Stanley is an American Democratic member of the New Jersey General Assembly representing the 18th district, after serving on the East Brunswick Township Council.
Sterling & Wilson Renewable Energy
Sterling & Wilson Renewable Energy is an Indian engineering, procurement, and construction contractor for utility-scale solar projects, headquartered in Mumbai and operating across 28 countries.
Sterling Allen Brown
Sterling Allen Brown (1901-1989), American poet, Howard University professor, folklorist, and critic; author of Southern Road (1932) and The Negro Caravan (1941); Lenore Marshall Prize 1982, D.C. poet laureate 1984.
Sterling Archer
Sterling Archer is the fictional superspy protagonist of the FX adult animated comedy Archer (2009–2023), voiced by H. Jon Benjamin, created by Adam Reed, and known as code name Duchess at his mother's agency ISIS.
Sterling area
The sterling area was a group of countries, mostly in the British Commonwealth, that pegged their currencies to the pound sterling and held reserves in London, from 1931 to 1979.
Sterling B. Hendricks
Sterling B. Hendricks (1902–1981) was an American USDA chemist who helped identify phytochrome, the pigment regulating plant growth, and won the 1975 National Medal of Science.
Sterling Brown (basketball)
Sterling Brown, born 1995, is an American guard-forward from SMU drafted 46th overall in 2017; he played for the Bucks, Rockets, and Mavericks and later Alba Berlin and Partizan.
Sterling C. Johnson
Sterling C. Johnson is an American clinical neuropsychologist and Alzheimer's researcher at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for early detection work and validating the plasma p-tau217 blood test.
Sterling Emerson
Sterling Emerson was an American geneticist at Caltech known for his quantitative model of gene conversion; he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1970.
Sterling Group Foundation Fund
The Sterling Group Foundation Fund, L.P. is a 2022-vintage private equity fund of The Sterling Group, a Houston, Texas firm that buys lower middle market industrial companies.
Sterling Hayden
Sterling Hayden, also Sterling Walter Hayden, born Sterling Relyea Walter: American actor, sailor, OSS agent and author, star of The Asphalt Jungle, Dr. Strangelove and The Godfather, who named names before HUAC.
Sterling Heights
Sterling Heights, Michigan: fourth-largest Michigan city (134,346 in 2020), in Macomb County near Detroit. Incorporated July 1, 1968 from Sterling Township; council-manager government; notable for Holcombe Beach Paleo-Indian site and 28% foreign-born residents.
Sterling Infrastructure
Sterling Infrastructure, formerly Sterling Construction Company, is an American construction and infrastructure services company headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas, operating in e-infrastructure, transportation, and building solutions.
Sterling Investment Partners
Sterling Investment Partners is a Greenwich, Connecticut private equity firm making control investments in middle-market business services and distribution companies, whose fifth fund closed at $1.6 billion in 2025.
Sterling K. Brown
Sterling K. Brown (Sterling Kelby Brown), American actor born 1976 in St. Louis; Emmy winner for American Crime Story and This Is Us, Golden Globe first for Black actors in TV drama, Oscar nominee for American Fiction, star of Hulu's Paradise.
Sterling Knight
Sterling Knight (Sterling Sandmann Knight, born 1989, Houston, Texas) is an American actor and musician known for Chad Dylan Cooper in Sonny with a Chance, Christopher Wilde in StarStruck (2010), and Alex in 17 Again.
Sterling Marlin
Sterling Marlin, American NASCAR Cup Series driver (1976-2009), son of Coo Coo Marlin; won back-to-back Daytona 500s in 1994-95, 10 Cup wins, third in 2001 standings.
Sterling Mets / New York Mets
Sterling Mets, L.P. is the partnership that owned and operated the New York Mets baseball team under the Wilpon and Katz families from 2002 to 2020.
Sterling Morrison
Sterling Morrison (Holmes Sterling Morrison Jr., 1942-1995) was a founding guitarist of the Velvet Underground, later earning a medieval studies doctorate and working as a Houston tugboat captain; distinct from other people named Morrison.
Sterling Point
Sterling Point is a 2026 Prime Video coming-of-age drama created by Megan Park, starring Ella Rubin as Annie Jacobson, a New York teen who inherits a mysterious Canadian island; renewed for season 2 in August 2026.
Sterling Price
Sterling Price (1809–1867), Missouri governor 1853–1857 and major general of the Missouri State Guard and Confederate Army, won Wilson's Creek and Lexington in 1861, lost Pea Ridge, Iuka, Corinth, and the 1864 Missouri raid at Westport, then exiled to Mexico rather than surrender.
Sterling Sharpe
Sterling Sharpe (born 1965) is a former Green Bay Packers wide receiver (1988-94), 595 catches, 8,134 yards, 65 TDs, 1992 receiving triple crown; retired at 29 with a neck injury; Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2025, first brother duo with Shannon Sharpe.