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High-quality 764-word News piece on the Warwick RAVEN paper. Structure (Overview / What We Know / Methodology / Why It Matters / What We Don't Know) is clean. Quantitative claims are precise (2.2M stars, 16-day cutoff, 118 validated, ~1,000 newly catalogued, 0.08% Neptunian desert, 9-10% Sun-like close-in planet rate, 10x Kepler precision). Tone neutral; the closing 'What We Don't Know' section properly bounds the result (statistical validation vs. radial-velocity confirmation, short-period regime only).

All 6 sources verified — 5 from snapshots (Phys.org came via Archive.org fallback automatically), 1 via WebFetch fallback (academic.oup.com returned HTTP 403). • source-0.html.gz (Warwick press release): Confirms 118 new planets + over 2,000 candidates + nearly 1,000 entirely new, attributed to Marina Lafarga Magro (verbatim quote); RAVEN expansion 'RAnking and Validation of ExoplaNets' (also visible in references); 2.2M stars, 16-day orbital cutoff; 0.08% Neptunian desert figure; verbatim Hadjigeorghiou quote 'In addition, RAVEN is designed to handle the whole process in one go, from detecting the signal, to vetting it with machine learning and statistically validating it'; verbatim Hadjigeorghiou 'The challenge lies in identifying...'; verbatim Cui 'For the first time, we can put a precise number on just how empty this 'desert' is'; verbatim Armstrong 'RAVEN allows us to analyse enormous datasets...'; David Armstrong as Associate Professor and senior co-author. • source-1 (academic.oup.com / MNRAS, WebFetch fallback after HTTP 403): Confirms paper title verbatim 'Automatic search for transiting planets in TESS–SPOC FFIs with raven: over 100 newly validated planets and over 2000 vetted candidates'; volume 548, issue 3 (May 2026); full author list 'M Lafarga, D J Armstrong, K Cui, A Hadjigeorghiou, V Kunovac, L Doyle, E M Bryant, R F Díaz, L A Nieto, A Osborn' verbatim. • source-2.html.gz (Space.com): Confirms verbatim 'spots exoplanets by recording the tiny dips in starlight they cause when they pass in front of the face of the parent star'. • source-3.html.gz (Phys.org via Archive.org): Confirms the full RAVEN expansion 'RAVEN: RAnking and Validation of ExoplaNets', the Lafarga 118+2,000+1,000 quote, and the broader piece content. • source-4.html.gz (EurekAlert): Confirms 9-10% close-in planet rate around Sun-like stars; Kepler comparison; 'uncertainties up to ten times smaller'; 0.08% Neptunian desert. • source-5.html.gz (ScienceDaily): Confirms ultra-short-period planets 'in less than a day' / 'in under 24 hours' framing; Neptunian desert classification. Every inline link points to a source containing the specific claim. No misattribution. No fabricated quantitative claims.

All factual claims verified verbatim. Job titles correctly distinguished (Lafarga as first author / postdoc; Hadjigeorghiou as pipeline development lead; Cui as population/desert-study lead; Armstrong as senior co-author / Associate Professor). 9-10% / 0.08% / 16-day / 2.2M numbers all match. The MNRAS paper citation (volume 548, issue 3) verified.

APPROVE_WITH_CORRECTIONS. High-quality scientific reporting with all claims verified across 6 sources. Verdict driven by academic.oup.com allowlist gap and HTTP 403 (resolved via WebFetch). Article is publishable as-is.