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Hooray for gender inequality

June 22, 2009 – 8:00 am

newscientistWe mistakenly suggested that greater gender inequality increases the instance of female mathematicians in a country. Of course that should have been gender equality (6 June, p 7).

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Terawhat?

May 18, 2009 – 8:00 am

newscientistLet’s be clear: the rate at which sunlight delivers energy to the Earth’s surface should be expressed in terawatts. Our “For the record” of 25 April (p 25) not only contained a nonsense of its own (suggesting that a terawatt is different from a terajoule per second), but also failed to address our original blooper, in which we referred to terawatts per day (4 April, p 24). Link

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Fuzzy numbers etc.

March 23, 2009 – 8:00 am

newscientist In “Surviving in a warmer world” (28 February, p 28) we said that “9 million people would need 18,000 square kilometres of land to live on”. That figure should, of course, have been 9 billion people, and the area of land 180,000 square kilometres. Link

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Earth on the brain

March 16, 2009 – 8:00 am

newscientist Our review of two books on Islamic science wrongly described Copernicus’s solar system as geocentric, rather than heliocentric (21 February, p 46) – a confusion that might have saved Galileo a great deal of trouble. Link

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Lessons in geography etc.

March 2, 2009 – 8:00 am

newscientistWe said that in 1709 “from Czechoslovakia in the east… everything turned to ice” (7 February, p 46). No such country existed in 1709. It was founded in 1918 and split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993. Link

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A really nice sea lion

December 22, 2008 – 8:00 am

We accidentally referred to a “stellar sea lion” (29 November, p 6). The featured mammal is a Steller’s sea lion. Link

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Trial and error

November 17, 2008 – 8:00 am

We mistakenly reported that all 59 people who received a new treatment for their inoperable brain cancer had died (4 October, p 16). We are pleased to report that several patients in the trial by Transmolecular of Cambridge, Massachusetts, are still alive. Link

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A correction, but no free ad

August 12, 2008 – 8:00 am

A diagram on our Technology page claimed: “The US has more than twice as many wireless internet hotspots as any other country” (17 May, p 25). This was unfounded. The figures on which it was based were for hotspots registered with one commercial organisation, which isn’t going to get a free ad out of us. Link

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A man of many interests

August 4, 2008 – 8:00 am

Feedback said that Darren Wright, of the project to beam biscuit adverts to aliens, is an astronomer (5 July). He is a lecturer in radio and space plasma physics who lists his research interests as “Things”. Link

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Fuzzy numbers etc.

August 4, 2008 – 8:00 am

We said that Australian companies “forecast spending $800 between 2002 and 2013 on geothermal exploration” (19 July, p 24). That should have been $800 million. Link

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Rest is fine

June 30, 2008 – 8:00 am

In the article “Alps are no go without snow” we said the measurement stations are between 200 and 1800 metres above snow level: that should have been above sea level. The study counted snow days, not snowfall; and the 60 per cent decline was for the Swiss plateau between Zurich, Bern and Basel, and not the Swiss Alps. Link

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Gender issues

May 19, 2008 – 8:00 am

Our apologies to Yianna Lambrou of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization for referring to her as “he”. Link

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Totally wrong

February 18, 2008 – 8:00 am

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

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Technology is incredible

January 14, 2008 – 8:00 am

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

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Fuzzy numbers etc.

January 14, 2008 – 8:00 am

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

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