Technology and the built world

Shanxi Yuguang power station

Shanxi Yuguang power station, also called the Shanxi Shanyin power station, is a coal-fired power station in Shanyin County, Shuozhou, Shanxi, China, with four combined heat and power units totaling 1,300 MW.

Shanxi Zhaoguang power station

Shanxi Zhaoguang power station (山西国际能源兆光发电厂) is a 1,800-megawatt coal-fired power station in Huozhou, Linfen, Shanxi, China, operating since 2005 and owned by Shanxi Zhaoguang Power Generation.

Shaoguan Wastecoal power station

Shaoguan Wastecoal power station (国粤韶关综合利用发电厂) is a 700 MW coal-fired power station in Shaoguan, Guangdong, China, burning coal gangue, with two units commissioned in 2017.

Sep 21, 2026

Shaoqin Gong

Shaoqin (Sarah) Gong is a bioengineer and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for a biodegradable nanocapsule delivering Cas9 for in vivo genome editing.

Shaoxing Binhai power station

Shaoxing Binhai power station is a coal-fired combined heat and power plant in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China, rated at 999 MW and the largest CHP enterprise in Zhejiang Province.

Sep 20, 2026

Shaoyi Jiang

Shaoyi Jiang is an American-based biomaterials scientist who pioneered zwitterionic ultralow-fouling materials and holds named professorships at Cornell University, where he works on drug delivery and mRNA vaccines.

SHAP

SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations) is a feature attribution method that explains individual machine-learning predictions by assigning each feature a Shapley value from cooperative game theory.

Shape analysis (computational geometry)

Shape analysis is the branch of computational geometry that compares and models geometric objects after removing location, scale, and rotation, producing shape distances, correspondences, and mean shapes.

Shape context

Shape context is a shape descriptor in computer vision that represents each point on a shape by a histogram of the other points' relative positions, used for shape matching and object recognition.

Shape deposition manufacturing

Shape deposition manufacturing (SDM) is a solid freeform fabrication process that builds multi-material parts by depositing layers and machining each one, developed at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford.

Shape factor (plastic design)

The shape factor of a structural cross section is the ratio of its plastic to its elastic section modulus, a purely geometric property independent of material strength.

Shape from shading

Shape from shading is a computer vision problem: recovering the 3D shape of a surface from the shading variation in a single image, founded by Horn in the 1970s.

Shape memory alloy actuator

A shape memory alloy actuator is a solid-state actuator that produces motion from a reversible phase transformation between martensite and austenite, triggered by heat, stress, or a magnetic field.

Shape memory polymer

A shape memory polymer is a smart material fixed in a temporary shape that recovers its memorized permanent shape when triggered by heat, light, or another stimulus.

Shape optimization

Shape optimization is a numerical design method that iteratively adjusts a structure's geometry, guided by physics simulations and gradients, to improve drag, compliance, or cost.

Shape Up (software development)

Shape Up is a product development methodology from Basecamp that runs software work in fixed six-week cycles, replacing backlogs and estimates with shaped pitches and explicit bets.

Shape-memory alloy

A shape-memory alloy, also called memory metal, is a metal that recovers a pre-set shape when heated. Its best-known form is nitinol, a nickel-titanium alloy.

Shape-memory effect

The shape-memory effect is a material's ability to recover a preset shape when heated after deformation in its low-temperature martensitic phase, best known in nickel-titanium alloys such as nitinol.

Oct 22, 2026

Shape-memory metamaterials

Shape-memory metamaterials are architected materials combining mechanical metamaterial design with the shape memory effect, recovering a memorized shape when triggered by heat, light, or magnetism.

Oct 22, 2026

Shape-morphing metamaterials

Shape-morphing metamaterials are a subclass of mechanical metamaterials whose geometry lets them transform into prescribed target shapes, with applications in robotics, biomedical devices, and deployable structures.

Shaped charge

A shaped charge, also called a hollow charge, is an explosive device with a metal-lined cavity whose detonation forms a high-velocity metal jet that penetrates armor, used against tanks and in oil wells.

ShapeNet

ShapeNet is a large, richly annotated dataset of 3D CAD models for computer vision, graphics, and robotics research, introduced in 2015 by Stanford, Princeton, and TTIC researchers.

Shapeways

Shapeways is a digital manufacturing company founded in 2007 as a Philips spin-off in Eindhoven, offering on-demand 3D printing and CNC machining, with over 21 million parts produced.

Shapingchang gas field

Shapingchang gas field (沙坪场气田) is a large Carboniferous natural gas field in Liangping and Dianjiang, Chongqing, described as the largest integrated Carboniferous gas reservoir in eastern Sichuan.

Sharable Content Object Reference Model

The Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) is a set of specifications letting e-learning content from any vendor run in any conformant learning management system.

Sharada Peeth (शारदा पीठ)

Sharada Peeth (शारदा पीठ), also called Sharda Temple, is a ruined Hindu temple at Shardi in the Neelum Valley of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, revered as the goddess Sharada's abode.

Sharang

The Sharang is a 155 mm/45-caliber towed artillery gun of the Indian Army, created by upgrading the army's Soviet-origin 130 mm M-46 field guns to 155 mm caliber.

Sharara Field

Sharara Field, also written El Sharara (Arabic شرارة), is Libya's largest onshore oil field in the Murzuq Basin, producing up to 300,000 barrels per day.

Sharavathy hydroelectric plant

The Sharavathy hydroelectric plant is a 1,035 MW generating station on the Sharavathi River in Karnataka, India, built around the Linganamakki dam completed in 1964 and one of India's oldest hydroelectric projects.