Square Kilometer Array

For many years, two groups of countries, one consisting of Australia and New Zealand, and one of several sub-Saharan countries led by South Africa, have polished their competing proposals to host the Square Kilometre Array, a huge, 1.9 billion dollar ..

Sugar Development Fund

The Sugar Cess Act, 1982 provides for levy of cess, which currently is Rs. 24 per quintal with effect from 1st March, 2008 on production of Sugar for credit to the Consolidated Fund of India. The Sugar Development Fund Act, ..

Shining Path

The Communist Party of Peru more commonly known as the Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) is a Maoist organization in Peru. Formed in the 1960s with an objective to replace what it saw as bourgeois democracy with "New Democracy" in Peru, ..

Shape Memory Alloys

The Robojelly mentioned in above note used Shape Memory Alloys. The live jellyfish is an ideal invertebrate to base the vehicle on due to its simple swimming action: it has two prominent mechanisms known as “rowing” and “jetting”. A jellyfish’s ..

Slashtag / Microsyntax

Slashtags or Microsyntax are a set of short community-created conventions for attributing information on Twitter. They are designed to be succinct and provide an easy way to provide metadata about a tweet, especially when "retweeting". A word like “follow” (to ..

Selene / Kaguya

Kaguya was the name of a Japanese princess. The same name has been given to the second Japanese lunar orbiter spacecraft which is technically Selenological and Engineering Explorer or SELENE. It was launched by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA, ..