Science
- Packet Switch Stream, a British packet-switched network
- Patterned Sapphire Substrate
- Perceived Stress Scale, a psychological instrument for measuring perceived stress in humans
- Physica Status Solidi, the family of academic journals focused on solid state physics, published by Wiley-VCH
- Physical symbol system, Hypothesis concerning cognition. Closely connected to AI-research
- Physiologic saline solution
- Photostationary state, the equilibrium chemical composition under a specific kind of electromagnetic irradiation
- Plasma sound source, a means of making sonar underwater
- Polystyrene Sulfonic Acid, also known as Sodium polystyrene sulfonate or poly(styrenesulfonate)
- Portosystemic shunt, a disease found in humans, cats and dogs
- Practical Salinity Scale, the conductivity ratio of a sea water sample to a standard KCl solution
- Progressive systemic sclerosis, a rare chronic disease
- Probabilistic Signature Scheme, a secure way of creating signatures with RSA (see also: PKCS1#Schemes)
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Famous quotes containing the word science:
“If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)
“The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.”
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
“Copernicanism and other essential ingredients of modern science survived only because reason was frequently overruled in their past.”
—Paul Feyerabend (1924–1994)