Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea
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Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea
Jonathan responds to your texts and tweets, is joined in studio for all the latest science stories for Newsround and speaks to one of our two guests featured on the show. Listen and subscribe to Futureproof with Johnathan McCrea on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Download, listen and subscribe on the...
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Extra: Why can’t we figure out static electricity?
Guest: Scott Waitukaitis, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria in Klosterneuburg
The Dawn of Writing
Guests:
Genevieve Von Petzinger, Paleoanthropologist and Rock Art Researcher and Project Director of the LIAACAR Project (The Living, Intelligen...
Extra: Why Are We Going Back To The Moon?
Guest: Dallas Campbell, BBC Space Presenter and author of ‘Space Journal: The Art and Science of Cosmic Exploration’
Building a Robotic Oesophagus
Guests:
Dr Eoin O'Cearbhaill, Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering at University College Dublin
Dr Shane Bergin, Physicist at UCD...
Why should we avoid creating contrails?
Guests:
Dr Jessie Smith, Research Associate in Sustainable Aviation at the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge
Dr Fer...
Extra: Movies reconstructed from mouse brain activity
Guest: Dr Joel Bauer, Research Fellow at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour at UCL
What happens during a hallucination?
Guests:
Dr Anna Georgiades, Lecturer in Early Intervention in Psychosis at King's College London
Dr Ruth Freeman
Dr John Regan
Extra: The Origins of Our Musical Ability
Guest: Dr Ani Patel, Tufts University, Massachusetts
How The Brain Can Recover Forgotten Memories
Guests:
Dr Benjamin J. Griffiths, University of Nottingham
Dr Ruth Freeman, Research Ireland
Dr Tara Shine, Environmental Scientist
Extra: Why animals see the world at different speeds
Guest: Dr Kevin Healy, Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Galway
What you don’t know about respiration
Guests:
New York Times bestselling author and Science Journalist James Nestor
Dr Ruth Freeman
Dr Lara Dungan
Extra: What influences your willingness to be helpful towards strangers?
Guest: Dr Todd Vogel, Research Fellow in Psychology at the University of Birmingham
Clothes with health tracking technology
Guests:
Professor Steve Beeby, Chair in Emerging Technologies and Director of the Centre for Flexible Electronics and E-Textiles at the Universi...
Extra: What drives the power of our tides and waves?
Guest: Prof Iris Möller, Coastal Geomorphologist and Chair of the Geography Department at Trinity College Dublin
Predicting Scorpion Strikes
Guests:
Dr Michel Dugon, Assistant Professor in Zoology and Principal Investigator of the Venom Systems Lab at the University of Galway
Dr...
Extra: Does the Earth’s core hide vast hydrogen reservoirs and can it explain why it wont stop raining?
Guest:
With Prof Jon Wade, Associate Professor of Planetary Materials, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford
Making Life with Artificial Biological Intelligence
Guests:
Dr Shelley Brady, Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics at DCU
Dr Shane Bergin, physicist at University College Dubl...
Extra: Solar Maximum and the Northern lights explained
Guest:
Dr Alexandra Ruth Fogg, Postdoctoral Fellow in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
What is Aphantasia? Why some brains can’t visualize
Guests:
Dr Lara Dungan, immunologist, and Dr Shane Bergin, physicist at University College Dublin
Prof Adam Zeman, Honorary Fellow at th...
Extra: What Is Childhood Dementia?
Guest: Prof Matthew Campbell, Head of the Genetics Department and Chair of Neurovascular Genetics at Trinity College Dublin
Building a womb lining in the lab
Guests:
Dr Susan Kelleher, School of Chemical Sciences at DCU
Dr Shane Bergin, physicist at University College Dublin
Dr Peter Rugg...
Extra: Turning muscle signals into speech
Guest: Professor Luigi Occhipinti, Research Professor of Smart Electronics, Biosystems and AI, at Cambridge University
Why some wounds won’t heal
Guests:
Professor Kimberly Kline, Professor in Microbiology and Molecular Medicine at The University of Geneva and Visiting Scholar at Nanyang T...
Extra: What if stopping Alzheimer’s means targeting one gene?
Guest: Dr Dylan Williams, Principal Research Fellow in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology at UCL
Tackling Space Debris
Guests:
Dr Penelope Wozniakiewicz, Senior Lecturer in Space Science at the University of Kent
Dr Shane Bergin
Dr John Regan
Extra: What exactly is DNA?
Guest: Dr Kevin Mitchell, Associate Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin
How blood vessels boost lab-grown mini-brains
Guests:
Dr Mihai Lomora, Scientist with CÚRAM, the Research Ireland Centre for Medical Devices based at the University of Galway
Dr Jessam...
Extra: Earth’s Early Wildfires
Guest: Dr Clayton Magill, Associate Professor of Biogeochemistry at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland
Sustaining human life on the Moon and Mars
Guest: Professor Matthew Gilliham, Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space, at the University of Adelaide
The Surprising Flaws of Evolution
Dr Andy Dobson, author of ‘Flaws of Nature: The Limits and Liabilities of Natural Selection’
Extra: CAR T-Cell Therapy (Best of)
Guests:
Dr Larry Bacon, Consultant Haematologist from St James’s Hospital
Dr Nicola Gardiner, Chief Medical Scientist at the Cryobiology L...
Best of Futureproof: Creating Dark Matter, Curing Addiction
Guests:
Dr John Regan, Maynooth University
Yale Neuroscientist Vaughn Steele
Extra: Obtaining Fingerprints from Ammunition (Best of)
Guest: Dr Colm McKeever, Assistant Lecturer and Researcher in Analytical Chemistry, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Biotechnology, at TUS
Best of Futureproof: Mirror Life & The Science of Embalming
Guests:
Kate Adamala, Associate Professor of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development at the University of Minnesota
Glyn Tallon, Founder o...
Extra: Is butt breathing achievable?
Guest: Prof John Laffey, Professor of Anaesthesia Intensive Care Medicine at the School of Medicine of the University of Galway and a Consultant in An...
The winter hibernation gene in animals
Guests:
Professor Tyler Stevenson, Head of Physiology, Ageing & Welfare at the University of Glasgow
Dr Ruth Freeman of Research Ireland
Extra: Vitamin D is linked to BMI?
Guest: Prof Lena Zgaga, Professor in Epidemiology at the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the School of Health in Trinity
Can we witness stars form planets?
Guests:
Dr Emma Whelan, Department of Experimental Physics, Maynooth University
Dr Tara Shine, Change by Degrees
Dr Ruth Freeman, Re...
Extra: How we exploit artificial intelligence
Guest: Taha Yasseri, Director of the Joint Centre for Sociology of Humans and Machines at Trinity College Dublin
Is the human mind the next frontier in warfare?
Guests:
Malcolm Dando, Emeritus Professor at the School of Social Sciences at the University of Bradford
Dr Shelley Brady of DCU
Dr...