Science and Technology Advanced Research Laboratories, usually shortened to S.T.A.R. Labs, are a research organization in various stories published by DC Comics. S.T.A.R. Labs is most often seen in the Superman and Teen Titans comics. It was founded by a scientist named Garrison Slate, who wanted a nationwide chain of research laboratories unconnected to the government or any business interests. He succeeded not only on a national scale, but an international one as well: S.T.A.R. currently maintains facilities in Canada, Europe and Japan as well as in the United States, with the total number of facilities numbering between twenty and thirty at last recorded count. In the Superman comics, Professor Hamilton formerly worked there, and Dr. Kitty Faulkener, also known as the superheroine Rampage, does so currently. Lex Luthor has attempted to buy out S.T.A.R. on at least one occasion. The Metropolis S.T.A.R. Labs is most often seen as a temporary holding area for captured supervillains, as research is made on how to contain them. In Teen Titans, Cyborg's parents, Silas and Eleanor Stone, and former love interest Dr Sarah Charles all worked for S.T.A.R. The technology used to maintain his mechanical parts comes from S.T.A.R. Labs. The 1993 comics miniseries S.T.A.R. Corps was about a group of superhumans who had inadvertently gained their powers in a S.T.A.R. Labs experiment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.T.A.R._Labs