The World View ‘Scottish science is ready to go it alone’ ( Nature 493, 579; 2013) attributed a recent debate on Scottish independence to the Royal Society of Edinburgh when it should have been the Royal Society of Chemistry.

The News story ‘Coffee rust regains foothold’ ( Nature 493, 587; 2013) gave the wrong year for the first major outbreak of the fungus in Costa Rica — it was 1989 not 1980.