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: Does science back up weird skincare trends?
Guest: Dr Xinyi “Beibei” Du-Harpur, NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer at St John’s Institute of Dermatology and King’s College London
Early flavour memories may shape picky eaters
Guests:
Professor Nadja Reissland of Science Foundation Ireland
Dr Ruth Freeman of Research Ireland
Dr Fergus McAuliffe of Trinity C...
Extra: Bodyoids
Guest: Hank Greely, Professor of Law and Expert in Bioethics at Stanford University
What is ‘Forensic Botany’?
Guests:
Christopher Hardy, Forensic Botanist and Biology Professor at Millersville University
Laura Hayes, Dublin Institute for Advanced S...
Extra: The Power of Plankton
Guest: Vincent Doumeizel, Senior Adviser on the oceans to the United Nations Global Compact and author of ‘The Power of Plankton: How Plankton Made Li...
The Smell of the Past
Guests:
Dr. Barbara Huber, Archaeochemist at the at the University of Tubingen in Germany
Jessamyn Fairfield from NUI Galway
John Re...
Extra: AI Improving Medicine
Guest: Charlotte Blease, Associate Professor in the Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Sweden and Author of ‘Dr Bot: Why...
Building a Warp Drive
Guests:
Dr. Katy Clough, Astrophysicist at Queen Mary University of London
Annie Curtis Body Research Lecturer in RCSI
Shane Bergin,...
Extra: How apples are engineered
Guest: Kate Evans, Professor in the Department of Horticulture at Washington State University
Will AI replace scientists?
Guests:
Jeff Clune, CIFAR AI chair at the Victor Institute and Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver,...
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’