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[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

crappy headline from science daily. The actual news here is the precision they calculated the time difference to.

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2025/12/what-time-it-mars-nist-physicists-have-answer

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 days ago

It's a real shame how scientific news is regularly butchered by sensational and basically wrong journalism.

[–] eleitl@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 days ago

Half a millisecond per day? No way it's true. Half a microsecond, that's more like it.