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Letter: For the record

Published 9 March 2016

• Bad air: the Royal College of Physicians in fact estimates £20 billion as the annual cost of pollution to UK individuals, businesses and the National Health Service (27 February, p 7).

• The authors of a paper on possible observation of a “super-Earth” 300 Astronomical Units from the sun withdrew it pending further data (23 January, p 28).

Issue no. 3064 published 12 March 2016

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