Corrections.The image in "Dune leapfrogging is deciphered" (SN: 12/20&27/03, p. 397) should have been rotated 180 degrees, the dunes moving left to right and proceeding horns first, with the top-to-bottom order of the sequence reversed. In the same issue, "Bookish book·ish adj. 1. Of, relating to, or resembling a book. 2. Fond of books; studious. 3. Relying chiefly on book learning: Math" (p. 392) reverses Frank and L. in an author's name Noun 1. author's name - the name that appears on the by-line to identify the author of a work writer's name name - a language unit by which a person or thing is known; "his name really is George Washington"; "those are two names for the same thing" . L. Frank Baum Noun 1. Frank Baum - United States writer of children's books (1856-1919) Baum, Lyman Frank Brown wrote The Royal Book of Oz. Finally, "Topsy Turvy: In neutrons and protons, quarks take wrong turns" (SN: 1/3/04, p. 3) misidentified certain quarks within neutrons. The quarks that behaved as expected were down quarks, and the one that didn't was an up quark up quark n. Abbr. u A quark with a charge of + 2/3 and a mass about 607 times that of the electron. It is a component of protons and neutrons. See Table at subatomic particle. . Also, helium nuclei, not helium atoms, were spin aligned. |
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