The News story ‘Hope for science in fallout of nuclear deal’ (Nature 520, 274–275; 2015) wrongly stated that Iran found a bank willing to accept its payment of dues to CERN. It was CERN, not Iran, that found the bank. In addition, the text implied that Iran is a full member of CERN — it is involved in specific projects at the lab. And the News story ‘Leading scientists favour women in tenure-track hiring test’ (Nature 520, 275–276; 2015) misidentified Virginia Valian as a linguist. She is a psychologist. It also misrepresented her views on the study by Williams & Ceci: she has reservations about aspects of the study’s methodology.