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Ethiopia Declares First Marburg Outbreak Over After Rapid Response and Vaccine Trial

Ethiopia ends its first Marburg outbreak after 14 confirmed cases. Contact tracing, safe burials and trials of experimental vaccine and therapies aided control.

#ethiopia, #marburg, #outbreak, #who, #vaccines

TECHNOLOGY technology

Newsrooms Turn to AI That Knows When to Say ‘I Don’t Know’

Publishers testing generative AI are finding the safest tools are those that flag missing facts, disclose limits and refuse to fabricate news copy.

#journalism, #generativeai, #newstrooms, #aistandards, #mediaethics

SCIENCE science

‘Cotton-candy’ planets around young star offer rare glimpse of how worlds shrink with age

Four ultra-puffy planets orbiting 20-million-year-old V1298 Tau reveal how newborn worlds lose atmospheres and contract into common super-Earths.

#exoplanets, #astronomy, #nasa, #planetformation, #jwst