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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: 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...
Extra: The one thing you need to know about electricity
Guest: Marcus Chown, Science Writer and author of ‘The One Thing You Need to Know’
Treatment-resistant depression
Guests:
Professor Valerie Voon, Professor of Neuropsychiatry and Neuromodulation at the University of Cambridge
Dr Jessamyn Fairfield of t...
Extra: The Age of Rock
Guest: Dr Anjana Khatwa, earth scientist and author of ‘The Whispers of Rock – Stories from the Earth'
Creating 'Mirror Life'
Guests:
Kate Adamala, Associate Professor of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development at the University of Minnesota
Immunologist Dr Lara D...
Extra: How chimps rationally revise their beliefs & face blindness
Guests:
Dr Emily Sanford, Postdoctoral Researcher in Psychology at the University of California Berkeley
Fiona Newell, Professor of Experi...
Recovering Lost Memories
Guests:
Prof Jane Aspell, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Head of the Self and Body Lab at Anglia Ruskin University
Dr Ruth Freema...
Extra: How Close Are We To Lab-Grown Teeth?
Guest: Ana Angelova Volponi of King’s College London
Extra: The Origin of Dark Energy
Guest: Prof Kate Maguire, Professor In Astrophysics at Trinity College Dublin
Recovering fingerprints from ammunition for forensics
Guests:
Dr Colm McKeever, Assistant Lecturer and Researcher in Analytical Chemistry, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Biotechnology, at...
Why do pregnant women get morning sickness?
Guests:
Professor Molly Fox of UCLA
Laura Hayes
Shane Bergin
The Harms of Over-Diagnosis
Guests:
Neurologist Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan
Shelley Brady, DCU
Shane Bergin, UCD
Extra: Huntington’s disease slowed with gene therapy
Guest: Dr Lauren Byrne, Principal Investigator at the Huntington’s Disease Centre at UCL