In the News story ‘Biosafety controls come under fire’ (Nature 511, 515–516; 2014) the ‘European Biosafety Organization’ should have been the ‘European Biosafety Association’. And the story ‘Project drills deep into coming quake’ (Nature 511, 516–517; 2014) gave the old name for the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences — it is now GNS Science.