The Skolkovo Foundation has been sucking up billion of roubles in funding with not much to show for it aside from a distant, windswept science park.
Indeed, astronomy is both the closest and the most distant science from common experience.
Although parity remains a distant goal, especially at science's highest levels, the number of women with doctoral degrees in academia increased eightfold between 1973 and 2006.
But for pre-meds, such courses have long taken a distant back seat to core science courses.
In the land of the free and the home of the brave, as the church becomes more and more of a distant and unsophisticated relative to science and the state, churches have to rely on more than just voluntary gifts to do their still-vital ministry.
The joy of doing science for science's sake becomes a distant memory.
NASA has recognized the science team behind the discovery of a distant planetary system with a Group Achievement Award.
For some of the older contestants, the project is a distant, perhaps harrowing memory from their early days in science.
"Even as more and more people come to accept the science behind it, climate change is still a distant threat.
Feb. 2. PITCH BLACK A science-fiction thriller about a crash landing on a distant planet that seems lifeless -- until night falls.
