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Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea — 465 episodes
Before Trees - What Were ‘Prototaxites’?
Extra: Was there human sacrifice in ancient Rome?
How does sperm work in outer space?
Extra: How microbes tackle pollution
The Chimpanzee War in Uganda
Extra: New Prostate Cancer Trials in Ireland
Learning while you sleep!
Extra: Does science back up weird skincare trends?
Early flavour memories may shape picky eaters
Extra: Bodyoids
What is ‘Forensic Botany’?
Extra: The Power of Plankton
The Smell of the Past
Extra: AI Improving Medicine
Building a Warp Drive
Extra: How apples are engineered
Will AI replace scientists?
Extra: Why can’t we figure out static electricity?
The Dawn of Writing
Extra: Why Are We Going Back To The Moon?
Building a Robotic Oesophagus
Why should we avoid creating contrails?
Extra: Movies reconstructed from mouse brain activity
What happens during a hallucination?
Extra: The Origins of Our Musical Ability
How The Brain Can Recover Forgotten Memories
Extra: Why animals see the world at different speeds
What you don’t know about respiration
Extra: What influences your willingness to be helpful towards strangers?
Clothes with health tracking technology
Extra: What drives the power of our tides and waves?
Predicting Scorpion Strikes
Extra: Does the Earth’s core hide vast hydrogen reservoirs?
Making Life with Artificial Biological Intelligence
Extra: Solar Maximum and the Northern lights explained
What is Aphantasia? Why some brains can’t visualize
Extra: What Is Childhood Dementia?
Building a womb lining in the lab
Extra: Turning muscle signals into speech
Why some wounds won’t heal
Extra: What if stopping Alzheimer’s means targeting one gene?
Tackling Space Debris
Extra: What exactly is DNA?
How blood vessels boost lab-grown mini-brains
Extra: Earth’s Early Wildfires
The Surprising Flaws of Evolution
Sustaining human life on the Moon and Mars
Extra: CAR T-Cell Therapy (Best of)
Best of Futureproof: Creating Dark Matter, Curing Addiction
Extra: Obtaining Fingerprints from Ammunition (Best of)
Best of Futureproof: Mirror Life & The Science of Embalming
Extra: Is butt breathing achievable?
The winter hibernation gene in animals
Extra: Vitamin D is linked to BMI?
Can we witness stars form planets?
Extra: How we exploit artificial intelligence
Is the human mind the next frontier in warfare?
Extra: The one thing you need to know about electricity
Treatment-resistant depression
Extra: The Age of Rock
Creating 'Mirror Life'
Extra: How chimps rationally revise their beliefs & face blindness
Recovering Lost Memories
Extra: How Close Are We To Lab-Grown Teeth?
Unusual Metamorphoses
Extra: The Origin of Dark Energy
Recovering fingerprints from ammunition for forensics
Extra: How to verify supplement quality
Why do pregnant women get morning sickness?
Extra: The Future of Solar Energy
The Harms of Over-Diagnosis
Extra: Huntington’s disease slowed with gene therapy
Rebuilding Our Body With Regenerative Medicine
Extra: Making the world's smallest violin
The creation of artificial cartilage
Extra: Dinosaur eggs directly dated for the first time
"Clearest sign" of life on Mars
Extra: Heart attacks may be triggered by infections
Dublin head scanner is 'breakthrough' in brain research
Extra: Misophonia Rehabilitation
How Humans Came to Walk Upright
Extra: What is Weaver Syndrome?
Creating Toothpaste Made From Hair
Extra: Eirsat-1 and The Future of Irish Satellites
Attacking Cancer: CAR T-Cell Therapy
Extra: Is slowing down ageing possible?
The science behind memory distortion
Extra: Advances In Ophthalmic Medicine and Eyecare
Can brain stimulation cure addiction?
Extra: Why is our Earth spinning faster?
Could colour be the answer to reviving marine life?
Extra: The role of mitochondria in why we need sleep
What determines the birth sex of a child?
Extra: Why newborns feel pain differently to adults
Biggest human imaging study completes scan of 100,000 people
Extra: Diabetes - could there be a cure?
Why are some species better at fooling predators?
Extra: How Does Pure Mathematics Shape Our World?
Extra: Did black holes create dark matter?
Can we programme life like software?
Extra: How do new planets form?
Vacuuming DNA & Is the ocean darkening?
'Mr Mummy' on King Tut's tomb and performing a mummification
Extra: Lyme Disease
Is The Earth's Core Leaking?
Extra: Imperfect Genetics
The Future of Fibre Optic Cables
Documentary Special: “Is There Anybody Out There?”
Extra: Could There Be Life On Mars?
The Man Who Endured 200 Snake Bites
Extra: Immunology from Deadly Pathogens
The Smells of an Epileptic Seizure
Extra: is the truth really the truth?
The new colour only 5 people have seen
Futureproof Extra: The Science of Risk (Best of)
Best of Futureproof: Becoming Concious & Rare Blood Plasma
Extra: How soon could we see lab-grown teeth?
The Science of Embalming
Extra: How micro-robots will help detect cancer in patients
What we know (and don't know) about the cosmos
Extra: Why mosquitos taste before they bite
Building a super particle collider
Extra: Why We Believe In Conspiracy Theories
Self-Assembling Long-Lasting Contraceptive
Extra: Using Virtual Reality To Conquer Fear of Public Speaking
The Great Whale Pee Funnel
Octopuses’ Weird Mating
When Do We Become Conscious?
Extra: Rare Blood Plasma
The Future of Space Food
Extra: The Advancement of AI
Should we reintroduce wolves to Ireland?
Extra: How our Brains Handle Aggression
Understanding More About the Sun & The Science of Risk
Extra: Solving Obesity
The Migration Journey for ‘Animal Athletes’
Extra: Meteorite Hunting
Toxic Semen in Mosquitoes
Futureproof Extra: Bioprinted Hearts
When Mega-Icebergs Melt
Extra: What is AMOC? And Why is it Changing?
How New Memories Are Formed
Extra: Carbon Dioxide's Secrets
How Decontamination Happens in Space
Extra: The Wallace Line
What Trees Can Tell Us
Extra: Bird Flu Epidemic in American Cattle
What connects cancer & Alzheimer's disease?
The Best of 2024
Extra: What Animals Understand About Death
Into the Unknown
Extra: Mushroom Robots
How quantum computing works
Extra: Private speech in twins
Can death be abolished?
Extra: The Prosthetic Memory System
Evolution's Bite and the Synthetic Age
Extra: Regeneration - The Internal World
What 'mastering' AI looks like
Extra: Regeneration - Virtual Worlds
Futureproof Live Science Week Special
Extra: A new blood pressure diagnostic device
Landing the Paris Agreement
Extra: Why are animals the size they are?
Extra: What Is The Fairest Electoral System?
Was ancient Greece's Antikythera mechanism the world's first computer?
Extra: Mapping the brain of a fly
The future of law enforcement
Extra: Estimating Ireland's ancient populations
Replicating the moon
Extra: Incredible new heart-imaging technology
How drugs are discovered
Extra: The Myths of Evolution
The Search for Male Contraception
Extra: Inflammatory Bowel Disease - What Causes It?
A brief history of UFOs
Extra: Lucid Dreaming
How AI will change your life
Extra: When can we have lab grown meat?
What happens to your data after you die?
Extra: What is Psilocybin and how does it work?
Life after death
Extra: How our biology shaped world history
What really happens during brain surgery
Extra: Inflammatory Bowel Disease - What Causes It?
Extra: A guide to our immune system
How neurons encode the meaning of words
Extra: Is the dream of fusion power dead?
What is MicroRNA?
Extra: The Wooden Age
Studying Consciousness
Extra: Symbiosis
Storm Chasing: The Science of Tornadoes
Moon Landing 55th Anniversary Special
Extra: Do I know you?
Why do some people always get lost?
Extra: Turbulence
What can we learn from whale ear wax?
Extra: Mapping the Cosmos
The Evolution of Flight & Digital Babies
Extra: You're All Talk, What Our Accents Say About Us
The High Seas
Extra: The Swiftquake Comes to Dublin!
How the things you see could alter how long you live!
Extra: The Evolutionary Effects of Endurance Hunting
Time Dilation & The Practical Challenges of Interstellar Travel
Gold: Faces
Extra: Carbon Capture
How the way we walk can tell us how healthy we are!
Extra: Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation
Exoplanet Weather
Extra: How Do We Divide Geological Time?
The Video Game that Aids Stroke Recovery
Extra: Could Europa Clipper Detect Life on Jupiter's Moon?
The Evolution of Eggs!
Extra: Ant Supercolonies
Space Elevators
Extra: Why Don't Woodpeckers Get Concussed?
The Interstellar Workshop
Extra: Extinctions: How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves
The Purpose of the Universe
Extra: Could We Cure Brain Tumours?
Near Death Experiences
Gold: Where Are We?
Gold: DARPA - The Pentagon's Brain
Extra: Studying psi
Nuclear War: A Scenario
The Science of Menstruation
Eat, Poop, Die
Extra: Enhancing Daylight
The Nocebo Effect
Extra: The Ice Cube Neutrino Observatory
Who Owns The Moon?
Extra: Brain Fog
Why We Humans Can Get Used To Just About Anything
Futureproof Extra: A New Habitat in the Pacific Garbage Patch
Why Do Humans Grow Up So Slowly?
Documentary Special: Scorched Earth
Extra: Managing Stress Via The Gut
Could We Delay The Menopause?
Futureproof Extra: The origins of Guinness yeast
How does a brain implant affect your mind?
Futureproof Extra: What is the Coriolis Effect?
How does the human eye see so many colours?
Futureproof Extra: How does our skin age?
The science of quantum teleportation
Futureproof Extra: The vest that could help predict sudden cardiac death
What makes urine yellow?
Futureproof Extra: Reaching for the Sun
Warning drivers of road obstacles with 3D holograms
Best of 2023 - The Fascinating History of Measurement
Best of 2023 - Why Can't we Breathe Underwater?
Best of 2023 - Can we Live on Mars?
How can Humans Survive Extreme Cold?
The Atmospheric Phenomenom: STEVE
Futureproof Extra: How your organs can be a different age to the rest of your body
Creating VR Goggles for Mice
The Potential of Functional Foods
The Benefits of Hypoxia Training with Prof. Phil Jakeman
Futureproof Extra: How leaves form their shapes
The importance of scepticism in science
Futureproof Extra: Where do we save our memories?
Should we delay clamping the umbilical cord?
Science Week Special: What are the biggest threats to humanity?
Futureproof Extra: Exploring why UTIs persist with artificial bladders
EIRSAT-1: Ireland’s first satellite set for launch
Best of Futureproof: Why You Can't Focus
Futureproof Extra: The problem with 'Forever Chemicals'
Nature’s most effective and delicious toxins
Futureproof Extra: Pigments in the fossil record & the medical applications of Biophotonics
Does free will exist?
Do athletes perceive the world differently?
Futureproof Extra: What causes male pattern hair loss?
What are the "JuMBO" objects found in the Orion Nebula?
Futureproof Extra: Just how big can our brains get?
Are we too fixated on optimising our world?
Futureproof Extra: Toxoplasma Gondii
Lessons in longevity from the naked mole-rat
Futureproof Extra: Protecting our underwater cultural heritage
Can a robot be a person?
Futureproof Extra: The World of Dust
What our eyes can tell us about our health
Futureproof Extra: How rotational force is essential to everything
Will we soon be able to cure obesity?
Futureproof Extra: The Science of Cultured Meat
Womb transplants and the future of reproductive medicine
Futureproof Extra: Capturing Cosmic Dust
Can we reverse or stop ageing completely?
Futureproof Extra: Burying nuclear waste in Finland
How to build a spacesuit
Futureproof Extra: The Science of Suncream
Black Holes in Bathtubs
How technology affects our sleep
The relationship between your gut and your relationships
Futureproof Extra: How To Expect The Unexpected
How deepfakes impact your memory
Weapons of the Future, The Fibonacci Sequence & Cryo Conservation
Futureproof Extra: Geothermal Power
MDMA as a treatment for PTSD
Futureproof Extra: Ηow air pollution affects our health
The Woman Who Feels No Pain
Futureproof Extra: Harvesting electricity from thin air
The development of a new drug to prevent blood clotting
Futureproof Extra: Creating the First Synthetic Human Embryo
Why Ireland Has Fewer Earthquakes Than Britain
Futureproof Extra: The Dangers & Opportunities of Artificial Intelligence
Tackling the growing problem of light pollution
Futureproof Extra: Combating Bad Data & Misleading Numbers
Innovating Healthcare: Galway's Clinical Revolution
Futureproof Extra: Immunology Breakthrough
The First Egyptian Astronaut
Futureproof Extra: AI Mindreading
Why can’t we breathe underwater?
Futureproof Extra: Is Immortality by 2045 Possible?
The Science of Measurement
Futureproof Extra: The Secrets Of Our Seas
Lab-Grown Blood
Futureproof Extra: Curing Hearing Loss
Vaccine Patches
Futureproof Extra: The Future of Surrogacy & AI
Short Term Memory Illusions
Futureproof Extra: 'JUICE' Mission & Exploring Jupiter
Injectable Brain Implants
Futureproof Extra: Interpreting Alien Signals
Have we smelled everything in the world?
Futureproof Extra: How are diamonds formed?
Thomas Hertog on space, time, and working with Stephen Hawking
Futureproof Extra: The Trust Race
Tickertape Synesthesia & The Future of Quantum Computing
Futureproof Extra: Tenacious Beasts
Space prisons & other realities of living beyond Earth
Is ChatGPT the beginning of a general AI revolution?
Futureproof Extra: Ireland's first solar-powered racing car
Futureproof Gold: Face Blindness & Super Recognition
Do facial expressions influence our emotional state?
The Psychology of Revenge
Futureproof Extra: Will we soon be living on the moon?
The Science of Antidepressants
Creating a contraceptive pill for men
How to conduct an autopsy
Futureproof Extra: Underwater Avalanches
The Science of Sleep & Dreams
Do facial expressions influence our emotional state?
The Science of Semiconductors
Understanding Endometriosis With Single-Cell Genomics
Futureproof Extra: Hybrid Biomaterials for Spinal Cord Injuries
Origins of the Africanized Honey Bee
Futureproof Extra: What makes Roman concrete so duarble?
How to build the first city on Mars
Futureproof Extra: The Benefits of Sperm Swimming in Groups
Is it getting harder to maintain focus?
Futureproof Special: The Best of 2022
Futureproof Extra: Beyond Our Five Senses
Do Dark Matter & Dark Energy Actually Exist?
Futureproof Gold: Evolution's Bite
Futureproof Extra: The Origins of Sentience
Is Human Hibernation A Possibility?
Futureproof Extra: The Art of Making the Invisible Visible
Evidence of the Multiverse
Futureproof Gold: Enemies of the State
Futureproof Live: Is there a limit to our intelligence?
Futureproof Live: Is it possible to run forever?
Futureproof Extra: Neurostimulation in E-Sports
Gravity Batteries
The Sounds We Cannot Hear & What Can We Take To Make Us Live Longer?
Using AI to fight blindness
What is energy anyway?
Futureproof Extra: How do we tackle chronic pain?
Can Humpback whales be altruistic?
Is “Gamification” making fools of all of us?
Futureproof Extra: The science behind bees' waggle dance
Futureproof Extra: The new science of the heart
Human Organs-on-Chips
Futureproof Extra: The End of Medicine As We Know It
Thorium Nuclear Reactors
Futureproof Extra: The Large Hadron Collider & The Search for a Fifth Force
Longevity, Immortality and the quest to defeat death with Aubrey De Grey
The Future of Transport
Futureproof Extra: Survival of the Richest
Exploring the Idea of Plant Intelligence
Futureproof Extra: What Animals Can Teach Us About Living Longer
Futureproof Extra: The Genetic Age
Chemputers & The Future of Chemistry
The Futureproof Language Special
Futureproof Extra: Prader-Willi Syndrome
The Science of Attraction
Futureproof Extra: The Last Days of the Dinosaurs
Inside The Mind of a Bee
Futureproof Extra: The Trouble with Cloning Birds
Why Usain Bolt Can’t Outrun Your Cat
Futureproof Extra: Why Do We See Ghosts?
Is Animal Translation Possible?
Futureproof Extra: The Science of Bisexuality
The Hidden Depths of Animal Perception
The Dream Machine
Gazing Into the Deepest Depths of the Cosmos
Futureproof Extra: The Secret Perfume of Birds
How To Change Someone's Mind
Futureproof Gold: DARPA - The Pentagon's Brain
Futureproof Extra: The Cutting-Edge Tech of Modern Operating Theatres
A Brief History of Weaponised Insects
Futureproof Gold: What is Time?
Futureproof Extra: Fair Seas & Potecting Our Marine Habitats
SIRT 6: The Longevity Gene
Could Google's LaMDA Really Be Sentient?
How The Science of Dogs Changed The Science of Life
Futureproof Extra: Treating Spinal Cord Injuries
Futureproof Extra: How Sensors Shape Our Everyday Life
What Does It Mean To Be Alive?
Futureproof Gold: The Science of Smell
Futureproof Special: United By DNA
Futureproof Extra: The Sound of The Universe & Everything In It
The Cutting-Edge Science of Transplants
Futureproof Extra: A Genetic History of the Americas
What Happened Before The Big Bang?
The Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory
Futureproof Extra: Upcycling CO2
A New Understanding Of Epilepsy
What Goes In To Designing A Rollercoaster?
Futureproof Extra: Are Smaller Scorpions More Deadly
Sequencing the Complete Human Genome
Futureproof Extra: Paleoburrows
50 Years of the The Dunedin Study
Futureproof Extra: What We Don't Know About Gravity
Creating Synthetic Alcohol
Futureproof Extra: The Joy of Science with Jim Al-Khalili
Designing a Vaccine for Covid-19
Futureproof Extra: Why Do We Hate?
The End of the Age of Astronauts
Futureproof Extra: Genomics
How Motorsport Science Can Save The World
Futureproof Extra: The Expectation Effect
Can Animals Detect Natural Disasters?
Futureproof Extra: Measuring Intelligence
NeoMimix: The New Sperm Selection Technology
Futureproof Extra: The Winchcombe Lockdown Meteorite
A Forensic Look at Solving Crimes
Futureproof Extra: Hybrid Humans
Unraveling the Mysteries of our Ancient Dead
What Sleep Can Teach Us About Epilepsy
Can Geoengineering Help in the Fight Against Climate Change?
Why Are We So Obsessed With Measuring Time?
Why Is Chewing So Important?
Could We Be On The Verge Of A Vaccine For MS?
Futureproof Extra: How Do We Navigate?
Where Are All The Irish Dinosaurs?
Futureproof Extra: A Natural History of the Future
What Life In Space Teaches Us About Life On Earth
Futureproof Gold: The Milgram Experiments
Futureproof Extra: The Robbers Cave Experiment
What Is Testosterone?
Futureproof Extra: Reading Monkey Brains with AI
Why Do We Kiss?
Futureproof Extra: Resignation Syndrome & Other Mysterious Illnesses
FutureProof Gold: The Pentagon's Brain
How Military Funding Shapes What We Know About The Oceans
Deepfakes: Have We Crossed The Uncanny Valley?
Futureproof Extra: Of Sound Mind
Can We Make Synthetic Blood?
The Cosmos, Blackholes & Time Loops With Neil deGrasse Tyson
Futureproof Extra: The Invisible Universe
Can Self-Driving Cars Be Moral?
The Intricate Skills Required For Bomb Disposal
Futureproof Extra: Fighting Infectious Diseases
Life As We Made It