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Did they just totally ignore units in the whole article? (Yes, they did). Anyway, in the comments author said it's in degrees Celsius, if anyone was wondering (as at that scale the difference is quite big).

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What did you expect: Farenheit?... Any scientific paper will refer to temperature either in Kelvin or Celsius ... and the difference between the two at that scale is quite small.

Kelvin and Celsius use the same scale, except the Kelvin scale's zero point is absolute zero.

Yeah, K/°C difference is small, but I didn't expect Kelvin as it isn't a "degree". And I don't know that site/portal/.. If it were US newspaper, I would expect it to be in degrees F without mentioning it. It happens.

Also, any scientific paper should use units. But to be fair, even though the difference between Farenheit and Celsius is huge at this scale, I can't really imagine it or compare it.

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