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Science and Engineering Research Board

Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), statutory Indian research funder under DST created by the SERB Act 2008; funded basic research via CRG, SRG, Ramanujan and J C Bose fellowships; dissolved under the ANRF Act 2023.

Science bulletin

Science Bulletin (科学通报) is a semimonthly English-language academic journal covering the natural sciences, sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Natural Science Foundation of China, continuing Chinese Science Bulletin from 2015.

Science Channel

Science Channel is an American pay television channel devoted to science, space, and technology, launched in 1996 and known for shows like MythBusters and How the Universe Works.

Science communication

Science communication is the exchange of information and viewpoints about science to achieve goals such as understanding or engagement. Also called public understanding of science, it spans deficit, dialogue, and participation models, and research shows communicating uncertainty generally builds trust in science.

Science diplomacy

Science diplomacy: use of science, scientific evidence, and scientific cooperation to support diplomatic objectives, and of diplomacy to support science. Also called global science cooperation; framed in three strands (science in, for, and diplomacy for science) since the 2010 Royal Society/AAAS report; EU framework adopted 2026.

Science diplomacy and pandemics

Science diplomacy and pandemics: how diplomacy for science, science for diplomacy, and science in diplomacy shape pandemic response, from the 1851 Sanitary Conference and WHO's IHRs to COVAX and the 2025 WHO Pandemic Agreement.

Science in the medieval Islamic world

Science in the medieval Islamic world: Arabic-language science, 8th–16th centuries, beginning with the Abbasid Graeco-Arabic translation movement of Greek, Syriac, Pahlavi, and Sanskrit texts, producing original work in astronomy, mathematics, medicine, and optics, later transmitted to Latin Europe.

Science Museum of Minnesota

The Science Museum of Minnesota is a nonprofit science museum in Saint Paul, founded in 1907, holding about 2 million objects in anthropology, biology, and paleontology.

Science Museum, London

The Science Museum in London is a free national museum of science, technology, and medicine on Exhibition Road, South Kensington, tracing its origins to the Great Exhibition of 1851.

Science of Logic

Hegel's Science of Logic (Wissenschaft der Logik, 1812-1816) is his three-book system of pure thought on being, essence, and the concept, distinct from his shorter Encyclopedia Logic; partially revised 1831 and central to metaphysical versus non-metaphysical readings of Hegel.

Science of reading

The science of reading is a research body on how children learn to read, anchored by the Simple View of Reading (Gough & Tunmer, 1986) and Scarborough's Reading Rope (2001), underpining phonics-centered instruction reforms in over 40 U.S. states.

Science Olympiad

Science Olympiad: American K-12 team STEM competition founded 1984 by Gerard Putz and Jack Cairns; 7,000 teams, 450 tournaments, 50 states; Divisions B/C with 23 events each; National Tournament each May.

Science, technology and society programme

A science, technology, and society (STS) program is an interdisciplinary academic program or center studying the social, ethical, and policy dimensions of science and technology at universities worldwide.

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics

STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) is a collective label for four disciplines, coined at the U.S. National Science Foundation in the 1990s and adopted in 2001, now central to education policy, equity debates, and workforce programs worldwide.

Sciences Po

Sciences Po (Paris Institute of Political Studies, Institut d'études politiques de Paris) is a French social sciences research university founded in 1872 by Émile Boutmy, known for its five-year degree, selective admissions, and top QS politics rankings.

Scientia potentia est

Scientia potentia est (also scientia potestas est), Latin for "knowledge is power"; aphorism closest to Bacon's ipsa scientia potestas est (Meditationes Sacrae, 1597), exact form first in Hobbes's 1668 Latin Leviathan, later reworked by Foucault.

Scientific committees of the Polish Academy of Sciences

The scientific committees of the Polish Academy of Sciences are self-governing representatives of individual scientific disciplines in Poland, electing 2,130 members across 71 committees for the term beginning 2024.

Scientific Data Systems

Scientific Data Systems (SDS) was an American computer company founded in California in 1961 by Max Palevsky and Packard Bell colleagues, sold to Xerox in 1969 for about $1 billion.

Scientific management

Scientific management, or Taylorism, is a system of factory management developed by American engineer Frederick Winslow Taylor that replaced rule-of-thumb methods with measured, standardized work.

Scientific misconduct

Scientific misconduct is fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism in research, as defined by the 2000 US federal policy; distinct from questionable research practices, with survey-based prevalence around 2.9% self-reported and investigation by institutions under ORI oversight.

Scientific racism

Scientific racism, also called race science, uses the authority of science to argue that races form a hierarchy; it flourished from the 1800s and is now discredited.

Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports (Sci Rep) is an online open-access peer-reviewed journal launched by Nature Publishing Group in 2011, publishing research across the natural sciences, psychology, medicine, and engineering.

Scientific socialism

Scientific socialism, or Wissenschaftlicher Sozialismus, is Engels' term for the Marx-Engels doctrine, distinguished from utopian socialism by surplus value and historical materialism, expounded in Anti-Dühring and Socialism: Utopian and Scientific.

Scientific socialism in Somalia

Scientific socialism in Somalia was the state ideology adopted by Mohamed Siad Barre's military regime in 1970, blending the Quran with Marx and driving nationalization and literacy campaigns.

Scientism

Scientism: the philosophical view that science, or the natural sciences, is the best or only source of genuine knowledge. Covers strong/weak and narrow/broad forms, its positivist roots, Hayek's critique, defenders like Rosenberg, and self-referentiality objections.

Scientology

Scientology is a new religious movement founded by L. Ron Hubbard, who introduced its ideas in Dianetics (1950); its Church was founded in 1954, and its central practice is auditing.

Scientology and celebrities

Scientology and celebrities covers the Church of Scientology's recruitment of famous entertainers, begun with L. Ron Hubbard's 1955 Project Celebrity, and its Celebrity Centre churches.

Scientology beliefs and practices

Scientology beliefs and practices teach that each person is an immortal spiritual being, a thetan, freed of mental blocks through auditing along the Bridge to Total Freedom.

Scilex Holding Company

Scilex Holding Company is a Palo Alto, California-based biopharmaceutical company focused on non-opioid pain management, selling ZTlido, ELYXYB, and GLOPERBA and trading on Nasdaq as SCLX.

SCImago Journal Rank

SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) is a free, PageRank-style journal metric from the SCImago Research Group that weights citations by citing-journal prestige over a three-year window using Scopus data, assigns Q1-Q4 quartiles per subject category, and differs from the JIF, CiteScore, and SNIP in weighting and data source.