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Nature 444, 129 (9 November 2006) | doi:10.1038/444129a; Published online 8 November 2006

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Data handling causes image problem for top lab

Geoff Brumfiel

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Correction to 1993 paper gets physicists talking.

Two papers — one published more than a decade ago and the other a preprint from last year — have raised doubts among experts about the work of a world-renowned microscopy laboratory.In a Corrigendum in this week's issue of Nature (see page 235), three authors from an atomic-imaging group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee admit to treating critical data inconsistently in a paper from 1993 (ref.