The article is from 2011, but it&#x27;s somehow trending now and has been resubmitted a few times.<p>The origin of the mistake was found a few months later: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Faster-than-light_neutrino_anomaly" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Faster-than-light_neutrino_ano...</a><p>&gt;  <i>Later the team reported two flaws in their equipment set-up that had caused errors far outside their original confidence interval: a fiber optic cable attached improperly, which caused the apparently faster-than-light measurements, and a clock oscillator ticking too fast.</i><p>Obligatory xkcd: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;955&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;955&#x2F;</a>