The average distance between the Earth and Sun measured using trigonometry is 93 million miles, not 3,000 miles as claimed in a viral post online. The author of the post claims that measuring with a ...
On a drizzling day in May 1673, deep in the dense rainforest of French Guiana, a scientist died. Known to historians only by his first name, Meurisse, he may have been cut down by disease or perhaps a ...