• Our article on the unreliability of gunshot residue evidence cited a report on the procedures of the Baltimore County Police Department’s crime laboratory (26 November, p 6). In fact, this lab does not carry out gunshot residue analysis. The report we quoted referred instead to the Baltimore City Police Department, which is a separate jurisdiction with its own crime lab. We offer our sincere apologies to the Baltimore County Police Department for this error.
• In the story “Innocents die as DNA goes untested” (26 November, p 10) we misspelled the name of the barrister Faisal Saifee. Our apologies.
• In “The day the gold rush stopped” (12 November, p 60) we reported that in the 1880s, 6000 square kilometres of California farmland was buried in mud from upstream gold mining in the 1880s. The correct figure is 6000 hectares.
• In last week’s Insider article on Ireland (3 December, p 58, UK edition only), we said that €250 billion was set aside for science for 2002 to 2006. This should have been €2.5 billion for 2000 to 2006.
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