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 will always look for explanations for what goes on in the natural world and test those explanations against evidence from the natural world  but exactly how this gets done may evolve. The scientific enterprise is not static. Science is deeply interwoven with society, and as it has changed, so too has science.Here are just a few examples of how modern scientific practices have been transformed by increasing knowledge, changing societal concerns, and advances in communication and technology.cience will always look for explanations for what goes on in the natural world and test those explanations against evidence from the natural world  but exactly how this gets done may evolve. The scientific enterprise is not static. Science is deeply interwoven with society, and as it has changed, so too has science.