The top online news from 2023, and using cough sounds to diagnose disease

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🗓️ 4 January 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Best of online news, and screening for tuberculosis using sound This week’s episode starts out with a look back at the top 10 online news stories with Online News Editor David Grimm. There will be cat expressions and mad scientists, but also electric cement and mind reading. Read all top 10 here. Next on the show, can a machine distinguish a tuberculosis cough from other kinds of coughs? Manuja Sharma, who was a Ph.D. student in the department of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Washington at the time of the work, joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about her project collecting a cough data set to prove this kind of cough discrimination is possible with just a smartphone. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. About the Science Podcast Authors: Sarah Crespi; David Grimm Audio credit for human infant cries: Nicolas Grimault, Nicolas Mathevon, Florence Levréro; Neuroscience Research Center, ENES and CAP team. UJM, CNRS, France. Episode page: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.zpuo5vn About the Science Podcast: https://www.science.org/content/page/about-science-podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast is supported by the Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, one of America's leading
0:05.8	research medical schools. Icon Mount Sinai is the academic arm of the eight hospital
0:11.1	Mount Sinai health system in New York City. It's consistently among the top recipients of
0:16.4	NIH funding. Researchers at Icon Mount Sinai have made breakthrough discoveries in many fields vital
0:22.8	to advancing the health of patients, including cancer, COVID and long COVID, cardiology,
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0:36.7	Morgan State University, a Baltimore, Maryland, Carnegie
0:39.7	R2 doctoral research institution, offers more than 100 academic programs and awards degrees
0:45.8	at the baccalaureate, master's, and doctoral levels, is furthering their mission of growing the
0:50.8	future leading the world. Morgan continues to address the needs and challenges
0:55.2	of the modern urban environment.
0:57.4	With a four-year quadrupling of research,
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1:05.1	Morgan is positioned to achieve Carnegie R1 designation
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1:10.4	To learn more about Morgan and their ascension to R1, visit the next five years. To learn more about Morgan and their
1:12.3	ascension to R1, visit morgan.edu slash research. This is a science podcast for January 5th,
1:25.1	2024. I'm Sarah Crespi. Welcome to a new year at the Science
1:29.6	podcast. We start out with a look back at 2023 and the top online news stories with
1:35.3	editor David Grimm. There'll be cats, but also electric cement and mind reading. Next, can a machine
1:42.3	tell a tuberculosis cough from other kinds of coughs?
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