Should I leave such a lacuna and present my herbarium to the Museum of Hamburg, without the boryana variabilis? The record of the first appears likely to be lost in the lacuna of 934 AH. The word is derived from lacuna, a cavity or hollow, a blank, hiatus or gap. Here there is a lacuna of sixteen short lines in the inscription.
Science is an integral part of our everyday life. But why is science so important to us and to the way in which we live? Without science we would be missing out on a multitude of different inventions and knowledge that have helped us to progress in life and learn about our world.
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Contemporary science is typically subdivided into the natural sciences which study the material world, the social sciences which study people and societies, and the formal sciences like mathematics. The formal sciences are often distinguished from the empirical sciences as the former does not depend on empirical observations. Disciplines which use scienc