Guardian earns an “F” in its Science Course

We misspelled a number of elements in the periodic table printed in part VI of the Science Course supplement distributed with the paper on May 1. We meant Iron (not Irone); Praseodymium (not Praseodynium); Neodymium (not Neodynium); Neptunium (not Neptuniam); Americium (not Americum); Seaborgium (not Seoborgium); and Darmstadtium (not Darmstadium). Link

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In part V of the Science Course supplement distributed with the paper (Everything equals E=mc2, page 6, April 30) we said: “Every second, millions of tonnes of helium within [the sun] vanish from existence. In its place, great amounts of energy emerge.” We meant hydrogen, not helium. Link

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This entry was written by Craig Silverman, posted on May 13, 2008 at 8:00 am, filed under Newspapers and tagged , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

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  1. Matthew
    Posted May 14, 2008 at 5:12 pm | Permalink

    And they still get it wrong. The hydrogen doesn’t all “vanish” into energy, it fuses into helium, with a total mass slightly less than the original hydrogen.

    If they just waited a while, they wouldn’t of had to apologize, as the sun will start fusing it’s helium in a little bit. Or, was the person writing FROM THE FUTURE???

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