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Stine Bosse
Stine Bosse, born 1960, is a Danish Moderates politician and Member of the European Parliament since 2024, serving as Vice-Chair of its Public Health Committee.
Stine Bredal Oftedal
Stine Bredal Oftedal, born 1991 in Oslo, is a Norwegian handball center back who captained Norway to Olympic gold at Paris 2024, after bronzes in 2016 and 2020.
Stine Lise Hattestad
Stine Lise Hattestad (Hattestad Bratsberg), Norwegian freestyle skier born 1966 in Oslo; Olympic moguls gold at Lillehammer 1994, bronze at Albertville 1992, 1993 world champion, moguls World Cup winner 1988 and 1993; later ESG consultant.
Stine Skogrand
Stine Ruscetta Skogrand (born 1993, Bergen) is a Norwegian right back and captain of Ikast Håndbold; Olympic gold 2024 and bronze 2020, World Championship gold 2015, EHF EURO titles 2016, 2020, 2022.
Stinespring dilation theorem
The Stinespring dilation theorem, proved by W. Forrest Stinespring in 1955, states that every completely positive map is a compression of a -homomorphism on a larger Hilbert space.
Sting
Sting (Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, born 1951, Wallsend, England), English musician, singer-songwriter, and actor; frontman and bassist of The Police (1976–1983), solo artist from 1985, over 100 million records sold, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, and star of David Lynch's Dune (1984).
Sting (drone)
Sting (STING) is a Ukrainian FPV interceptor drone made by Wild Hornets, designed to ram and destroy Russian Shahed attack drones, with over 3,000 downed since June 2025.
Sting (film)
Sting (2024) is an Australian creature-feature horror film written and directed by Kiah Roache-Turner, in which 12-year-old Charlotte's alien pet spider grows into a giant man-eater in a Brooklyn apartment building; released April 12, 2024, with Weta Workshop practical effects.
Sting (musician)
Sting (Gordon Sumner, b. 1951, Wallsend) is the English singer-bassist who fronted The Police (1977–84), then built a jazz-inflected solo career, winning 17 Grammys, selling over 100 million records, and co-founding the Rainforest Fund.
Sting (wrestler)
Sting (Steve Borden), American professional wrestler, NWA debut 1987, "The Franchise of WCW," six WCW World Titles, Crow persona from 1996, 2016 WWE Hall of Famer, retired undefeated in AEW at Revolution 2024.
Sting jet
A sting jet is a narrow, transient airstream of strong wind descending from the mid-troposphere in some extratropical cyclones, producing localized damaging surface gusts over 100 mph.
Sting operation
Sting operation: covert police tactic creating or exploiting a crime opportunity to arrest offenders in the act; also called undercover decoy operations; distinguished from entrapment, which involves improper government inducement.
STING-associated vasculopathy with onset in infancy
STING-associated vasculopathy with onset in infancy (SAVI) is a rare genetic autoinflammatory disease, first described in 2014, causing severe skin lesions and progressive lung disease in infants.
STING1
STING1 (formerly TMEM173; protein STING, ERIS, MITA, MPYS) is the human gene at 5q31.2 encoding the ER adaptor that binds cGAMP from cGAS, drives TBK1/IRF3 type I interferon signaling, and whose mutations cause SAVI vasculopathy.
Stinger
Stinger: venom-injecting organ of bees, wasps, hornets, fire ants, and scorpions; in Hymenoptera a modified ovipositor, in honeybees barbed and autotomized to keep pumping venom.
Stinging of skin
Stinging of skin (ICD-11 ME65.3) is an unpleasant nettle-like cutaneous sensation triggered by topical preparations or stimuli most people tolerate, the hallmark of sensitive skin syndrome, tested with the lactic acid sting test and linked to small-fiber neuropathy and TRPV1.
Stingless bee
Stingless bees (Meliponini), also called meliponines, are over 500 social bee species of tropical regions with atrophied stings; they store honey in cerumen pots, produce acidic high-moisture honey, and are kept in meliponiculture since Maya times.
Stingless bee colony organization and life cycle
Stingless bee colonies are perennial eusocial nests with one dominant queen and thousands of workers, founded by swarming fission, with slow larval development of about 50 days.
Stingless bee communication and behavior
Stingless bees (Meliponini) recruit nestmates to food using pheromone trails, odor marks, and vibration rather than honeybee waggle dances, with signaling strategies varying widely between species.
Stingless bee honey
Stingless bee honey, often called pot-honey, is honey produced by stingless bees and stored in small cerumen pots; it is more acidic, more watery, and far rarer than honeybee honey.
Stingless bee nest architecture
Stingless bee nest architecture is the enclosed structure built by Meliponini bees: horizontal brood combs surrounded by an involucrum, with oval storage pots built outside it.
Stingray
Stingray (Myliobatoidei): flattened, venomous-barbed cartilaginous fish of shallow coastal seas, up to 6.5 ft and 790 lb, with ampullae of Lorenzini prey sensing; distinct from manta, eagle, and electric rays.
Stingray bay
Stingray Bay is the name of interactive stingray touch-pool exhibits at facilities such as the Phoenix Zoo (15,000-gallon cownose ray pool), Tennessee Aquarium, and Sea Life Michigan, where a 2023 study found rays more active with more visitors.
Stingray injury
A stingray injury is a wound from the barbed, venomous tail spine of a stingray, usually on the feet or lower legs of people wading in shallow water.
Stingray phone tracker
The Stingray is a Harris Corporation cell-site simulator, a surveillance device that mimics a cell tower and forces nearby phones to connect and transmit identifying and location information.
Stinkers Bad Movie Awards
The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards, originally the Hastings Bad Cinema Society, gave satirical dishonors to Hollywood's worst films each year from 1978 until the final awards for 2006.
Stinkhorn and nidularioid ecology and dispersal
Stinkhorn and nidularioid ecology and dispersal covers how gasteroid fungi spread spores they cannot launch themselves: stinkhorns lure insects with carrion-like odors, while bird's-nest fungi eject spore packets with raindrops.
Stinking badges
Stinking badges: a famous line from the 1948 film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, spoken by Gold Hat (Alfonso Bedoya). Its paraphrase "We don't need no stinking badges" comes from The Monkees (1967) and Blazing Saddles (1974), not the film itself.
Stinky tofu (臭豆腐)
Stinky tofu (臭豆腐, chòu dòu fu) is a Chinese fermented tofu snack brined so microbes break protein into amino acids and hydrogen sulfide; famous fried Changsha (Huogongdian) and Beijing Qingfang versions differ by region and brine.
Stinson Reliant
The Stinson Reliant, also built for military use as the AT-19 Reliant, was an American cabin monoplane produced from 1933 to 1941 and known for its distinctive gull wing.