The Turning Point ‘Gourmet investigator’ (Nature 551, 403; 2017) erroneously stated that Vayu Maini Rekdal’s mother was born in Kenya. In fact, she was born in Sweden.

The Careers Feature ‘Super catalysts’ (Nature 552, 139–140; 2017) misspelled the colloquial term for Margarita Salas’s trainees: they are ‘Icfonians’, not ‘Infonians’.