Copyright: © 2013 Paliy O. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. The observations of different organisms’ interactions with their environment and with each other can probably be extended back to preh...

The convergence of next-generation sequencing and DNA barcoding has sparked a golden age of 'DNA metasystematics', allowing researchers to understand the biodiversity of an entire ecosystem solely through DNA information, and transforming the way we view the living world around us.

I n 1492, Columbus set sail on a voyage to reach the riches of the East and instead found a new world. His was not an isolated act of discovery but part of the Golden Age of Exploration —a multinational effort to find new lands, new wealth, and new trade routes. Prince Henry the Navigator, Magellan, Cabot, Bering, and many others from the major European powers used large government subsidies to...

islamic golden age, 9-12 century ad, was the period through which persian scientists and physicians were most influential in improving medical sciences including cardiovascular knowledge. although post-islamic golden age witnessed a number of great persian scholars moving cardiovascular concepts forward, they failed to become as well known as their predecessors. one of these scholars was hakim ...

The standard model of fundamental interactions is remarkably successful, but it leaves an unfinished agenda. Several major questions seem ripe for exploration in the near future. I anticipate that the coming decade will be a Golden Age of discovery in fundamental physics. Based on an invited talk at SUSY07, Karlsruhe, July 2007. This paper follows the talk closely.