Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea
Детаљи канала
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...
Недавне епизоде
420 епизода
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
Rebuilding Our Body With Regenerative Medicine
Guests:
Mary Roach, Science Author
Dr Laura Hayes, DIAS
Dr Jessamyn Fairfield, University of Galway
Extra: Making the world's smallest violin
Guest: Prof Kelly Morrison, Professor of Experimental Physics at Loughborough University
The creation of artificial cartilage
Guests:
Prof Oren A. Scherman, Professor of Supramolecular & Polymer Chemistry, and Director of the Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis at...
Extra: Dinosaur eggs directly dated for the first time
Guest: Professor Maria McNamara, Professor of Palaeontology at University College Cork
"Clearest sign" of life on Mars
Guests:
Professor Sanjeev Gupta, Professor of Earth Science at Imperial College London
Dr Susan Kelleher of DCU
Dr Shane Bergin of U...
Extra: Heart attacks may be triggered by infections
Guest: Prof Claudia Monaco, Professor of Cardiovascular Inflammation at the University of Oxford
Dublin head scanner is 'breakthrough' in brain research
Guests:
Prof Redmond O'Connell, Professor in Decision Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin
Dr Ruth Freeman of Research Ireland
Dr...
Extra: Misophonia Rehabilitation
Guest: Olwyn Morris, Audiologist and clinic owner of Medico Audiology
How Humans Came to Walk Upright
Guests:
Dr Terence D. Capellini, Chair of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University
Dr Lara Dungan, Immunologist
Dr Shane Ber...
Extra: What is Weaver Syndrome?
Guest: Adrian Bracken, Professor of Chromatin Biology at the Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin
Creating Toothpaste Made From Hair
Guests:
Dr Sherif Elsharkawy, Senior Clinical Lecturer in Prosthodontics, at the Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences at King's Co...
Extra: Eirsat-1 and The Future of Irish Satellites
With Dr David McKeown, Assistant Professor at the UCD Centre for Space Research.
Attacking Cancer: CAR T-Cell Therapy
With Dr Larry Bacon, Consultant Haematologist from St James’s Hospital, and Dr Nicola Gardiner, Chief Medical Scientist at the Cryobiology Laboratory...