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I was surprised to read "Employing this strategy, the researchers measured glucose concentrations as small as a few millionths of a mole" in an article published on an NIST website.
I fear that they, like so many organizations, must employ non-experts to interview experts and write stories. But getting the unit of concentration wrong? (Later in the sentence they do note that moles refer to quantity, not concentrations, so the whole sentence is self-contradictory.)
This problem is so common I think it might make sense to suggest a common solution. Perhaps an organization specializing in X ought to hire one member of the writing team who has a degree in X, to look over material before it goes out to the world. Or at least pay one of the experts on a per-case basis, say a day of salary for a half hour of work, to go over material before it is published.
Technical correctness and public relations are natural enemies. The original material comes from scientists who know what they are doing, but they aren't allowed to write their own press releases. For scientific papers, the scientists are already encumbered by layers of review that make it difficult to meet deadlines for publishing.