Tag Archives: new scientist

Totally wrong

The UK Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment found no excess cancers within 25 kilometres of nuclear plants. Because of an editing mistake, our story “Nuke-plant leukaemia link?” conveyed exactly the opposite. Link

Technology is incredible

We described Weta Digital as “giving Gollum a voice that sounded human”. Gollum’s words were spoken by the human actor Andy Serkis. Link

Fuzzy numbers etc.

The “record-breaking crust” we mentioned in Greenland is 3.8 billion years old - not 1000 times younger, as we stated. Link