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Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea — 453 episodes

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The Smell of the Past

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Extra: AI Improving Medicine

3

Building a Warp Drive

4

Extra: How apples are engineered

5

Will AI replace scientists?

6

Extra: Why can’t we figure out static electricity?

7

The Dawn of Writing

8

Extra: Why Are We Going Back To The Moon?

9

Building a Robotic Oesophagus

10

Why should we avoid creating contrails?

11

Extra: Movies reconstructed from mouse brain activity

12

What happens during a hallucination?

13

Extra: The Origins of Our Musical Ability

14

How The Brain Can Recover Forgotten Memories

15

Extra: Why animals see the world at different speeds

16

What you don’t know about respiration

17

Extra: What influences your willingness to be helpful towards strangers?

18

Clothes with health tracking technology

19

Extra: What drives the power of our tides and waves?

20

Predicting Scorpion Strikes

21

Extra: Does the Earth’s core hide vast hydrogen reservoirs?

22

Making Life with Artificial Biological Intelligence

23

Extra: Solar Maximum and the Northern lights explained

24

What is Aphantasia? Why some brains can’t visualize

25

Extra: What Is Childhood Dementia?

26

Building a womb lining in the lab

27

Extra: Turning muscle signals into speech

28

Why some wounds won’t heal

29

Extra: What if stopping Alzheimer’s means targeting one gene?

30

Tackling Space Debris

31

Extra: What exactly is DNA?

32

How blood vessels boost lab-grown mini-brains

33

Extra: Earth’s Early Wildfires

34

The Surprising Flaws of Evolution

35

Sustaining human life on the Moon and Mars

36

Extra: CAR T-Cell Therapy (Best of)

37

Best of Futureproof: Creating Dark Matter, Curing Addiction

38

Extra: Obtaining Fingerprints from Ammunition (Best of)

39

Best of Futureproof: Mirror Life & The Science of Embalming

40

Extra: Is butt breathing achievable?

41

The winter hibernation gene in animals

42

Extra: Vitamin D is linked to BMI?

43

Can we witness stars form planets?

44

Extra: How we exploit artificial intelligence

45

Is the human mind the next frontier in warfare?

46

Extra: The one thing you need to know about electricity

47

Treatment-resistant depression

48

Extra: The Age of Rock

49

Creating 'Mirror Life'

50

Extra: How chimps rationally revise their beliefs & face blindness

51

Recovering Lost Memories

52

Extra: How Close Are We To Lab-Grown Teeth?

53

Unusual Metamorphoses

54

Extra: The Origin of Dark Energy

55

Recovering fingerprints from ammunition for forensics

56

Extra: How to verify supplement quality

57

Why do pregnant women get morning sickness?

58

Extra: The Future of Solar Energy

59

The Harms of Over-Diagnosis

60

Extra: Huntington’s disease slowed with gene therapy

61

Rebuilding Our Body With Regenerative Medicine

62

Extra: Making the world's smallest violin

63

The creation of artificial cartilage

64

Extra: Dinosaur eggs directly dated for the first time

65

"Clearest sign" of life on Mars

66

Extra: Heart attacks may be triggered by infections

67

Dublin head scanner is 'breakthrough' in brain research

68

Extra: Misophonia Rehabilitation

69

How Humans Came to Walk Upright

70

Extra: What is Weaver Syndrome?

71

Creating Toothpaste Made From Hair

72

Extra: Eirsat-1 and The Future of Irish Satellites

73

Attacking Cancer: CAR T-Cell Therapy

74

Extra: Is slowing down ageing possible?

75

The science behind memory distortion

76

Extra: Advances In Ophthalmic Medicine and Eyecare

77

Can brain stimulation cure addiction?

78

Extra: Why is our Earth spinning faster?

79

Could colour be the answer to reviving marine life?

80

Extra: The role of mitochondria in why we need sleep

81

What determines the birth sex of a child?

82

Extra: Why newborns feel pain differently to adults

83

Biggest human imaging study completes scan of 100,000 people

84

Extra: Diabetes - could there be a cure?

85

Why are some species better at fooling predators?

86

Extra: How Does Pure Mathematics Shape Our World?

87

Extra: Did black holes create dark matter?

88

Can we programme life like software?

89

Extra: How do new planets form?

90

Vacuuming DNA & Is the ocean darkening?

91

'Mr Mummy' on King Tut's tomb and performing a mummification

92

Extra: Lyme Disease

93

Is The Earth's Core Leaking?

94

Extra: Imperfect Genetics

95

The Future of Fibre Optic Cables

96

Documentary Special: “Is There Anybody Out There?”

97

Extra: Could There Be Life On Mars?

98

The Man Who Endured 200 Snake Bites

99

Extra: Immunology from Deadly Pathogens

100

The Smells of an Epileptic Seizure

101

Extra: is the truth really the truth?

102

The new colour only 5 people have seen

103

Futureproof Extra: The Science of Risk (Best of)

104

Best of Futureproof: Becoming Concious & Rare Blood Plasma

105

Extra: How soon could we see lab-grown teeth?

106

The Science of Embalming

107

Extra: How micro-robots will help detect cancer in patients

108

What we know (and don't know) about the cosmos

109

Extra: Why mosquitos taste before they bite

110

Building a super particle collider

111

Extra: Why We Believe In Conspiracy Theories

112

Self-Assembling Long-Lasting Contraceptive

113

Extra: Using Virtual Reality To Conquer Fear of Public Speaking

114

The Great Whale Pee Funnel

115

Octopuses’ Weird Mating

116

When Do We Become Conscious?

117

Extra: Rare Blood Plasma

118

The Future of Space Food

119

Extra: The Advancement of AI

120

Should we reintroduce wolves to Ireland?

121

Extra: How our Brains Handle Aggression

122

Understanding More About the Sun & The Science of Risk

123

Extra: Solving Obesity

124

The Migration Journey for ‘Animal Athletes’

125

Extra: Meteorite Hunting

126

Toxic Semen in Mosquitoes

127

Futureproof Extra: Bioprinted Hearts

128

When Mega-Icebergs Melt

129

Extra: What is AMOC? And Why is it Changing?

130

How New Memories Are Formed

131

Extra: Carbon Dioxide's Secrets

132

How Decontamination Happens in Space

133

Extra: The Wallace Line

134

What Trees Can Tell Us

135

Extra: Bird Flu Epidemic in American Cattle

136

What connects cancer & Alzheimer's disease?

137

The Best of 2024

138

Extra: What Animals Understand About Death

139

Into the Unknown

140

Extra: Mushroom Robots

141

How quantum computing works

142

Extra: Private speech in twins

143

Can death be abolished?

144

Extra: The Prosthetic Memory System

145

Evolution's Bite and the Synthetic Age

146

Extra: Regeneration - The Internal World

147

What 'mastering' AI looks like

148

Extra: Regeneration - Virtual Worlds

149

Futureproof Live Science Week Special

150

Extra: A new blood pressure diagnostic device

151

Landing the Paris Agreement

152

Extra: Why are animals the size they are?

153

Extra: What Is The Fairest Electoral System?

154

Was ancient Greece's Antikythera mechanism the world's first computer?

155

Extra: Mapping the brain of a fly

156

The future of law enforcement

157

Extra: Estimating Ireland's ancient populations

158

Replicating the moon

159

Extra: Incredible new heart-imaging technology

160

How drugs are discovered

161

Extra: The Myths of Evolution

162

The Search for Male Contraception

163

Extra: Inflammatory Bowel Disease - What Causes It?

164

A brief history of UFOs

165

Extra: Lucid Dreaming

166

How AI will change your life

167

Extra: When can we have lab grown meat?

168

What happens to your data after you die?

169

Extra: What is Psilocybin and how does it work?

170

Life after death

171

Extra: How our biology shaped world history

172

What really happens during brain surgery

173

Extra: Inflammatory Bowel Disease - What Causes It?

174

Extra: A guide to our immune system

175

How neurons encode the meaning of words

176

Extra: Is the dream of fusion power dead?

177

What is MicroRNA?

178

Extra: The Wooden Age

179

Studying Consciousness

180

Extra: Symbiosis

181

Storm Chasing: The Science of Tornadoes

182

Moon Landing 55th Anniversary Special

183

Extra: Do I know you?

184

Why do some people always get lost?

185

Extra: Turbulence

186

What can we learn from whale ear wax?

187

Extra: Mapping the Cosmos

188

The Evolution of Flight & Digital Babies

189

Extra: You're All Talk, What Our Accents Say About Us

190

The High Seas

191

Extra: The Swiftquake Comes to Dublin!

192

How the things you see could alter how long you live!

193

Extra: The Evolutionary Effects of Endurance Hunting

194

Time Dilation & The Practical Challenges of Interstellar Travel

195

Gold: Faces

196

Extra: Carbon Capture

197

How the way we walk can tell us how healthy we are!

198

Extra: Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation

199

Exoplanet Weather

200

Extra: How Do We Divide Geological Time?

201

The Video Game that Aids Stroke Recovery

202

Extra: Could Europa Clipper Detect Life on Jupiter's Moon?

203

The Evolution of Eggs!

204

Extra: Ant Supercolonies

205

Space Elevators

206

Extra: Why Don't Woodpeckers Get Concussed?

207

The Interstellar Workshop

208

Extra: Extinctions: How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves

209

The Purpose of the Universe

210

Extra: Could We Cure Brain Tumours?

211

Near Death Experiences

212

Gold: Where Are We?

213

Gold: DARPA - The Pentagon's Brain

214

Extra: Studying psi

215

Nuclear War: A Scenario

216

The Science of Menstruation

217

Eat, Poop, Die

218

Extra: Enhancing Daylight

219

The Nocebo Effect

220

Extra: The Ice Cube Neutrino Observatory

221

Who Owns The Moon?

222

Extra: Brain Fog

223

Why We Humans Can Get Used To Just About Anything

224

Futureproof Extra: A New Habitat in the Pacific Garbage Patch

225

Why Do Humans Grow Up So Slowly?

226

Documentary Special: Scorched Earth

227

Extra: Managing Stress Via The Gut

228

Could We Delay The Menopause?

229

Futureproof Extra: The origins of Guinness yeast

230

How does a brain implant affect your mind?

231

Futureproof Extra: What is the Coriolis Effect?

232

How does the human eye see so many colours?

233

Futureproof Extra: How does our skin age?

234

The science of quantum teleportation

235

Futureproof Extra: The vest that could help predict sudden cardiac death

236

What makes urine yellow?

237

Futureproof Extra: Reaching for the Sun

238

Warning drivers of road obstacles with 3D holograms

239

Best of 2023 - The Fascinating History of Measurement

240

Best of 2023 - Why Can't we Breathe Underwater?

241

Best of 2023 - Can we Live on Mars?

242

How can Humans Survive Extreme Cold?

243

The Atmospheric Phenomenom: STEVE

244

Futureproof Extra: How your organs can be a different age to the rest of your body

245

Creating VR Goggles for Mice

246

The Potential of Functional Foods

247

The Benefits of Hypoxia Training with Prof. Phil Jakeman

248

Futureproof Extra: How leaves form their shapes

249

The importance of scepticism in science

250

Futureproof Extra: Where do we save our memories?

251

Should we delay clamping the umbilical cord?

252

Science Week Special: What are the biggest threats to humanity?

253

Futureproof Extra: Exploring why UTIs persist with artificial bladders

254

EIRSAT-1: Ireland’s first satellite set for launch

255

Best of Futureproof: Why You Can't Focus

256

Futureproof Extra: The problem with 'Forever Chemicals'

257

Nature’s most effective and delicious toxins

258

Futureproof Extra: Pigments in the fossil record & the medical applications of Biophotonics

259

Does free will exist?

260

Do athletes perceive the world differently?

261

Futureproof Extra: What causes male pattern hair loss?

262

What are the "JuMBO" objects found in the Orion Nebula?

263

Futureproof Extra: Just how big can our brains get?

264

Are we too fixated on optimising our world?

265

Futureproof Extra: Toxoplasma Gondii

266

Lessons in longevity from the naked mole-rat

267

Futureproof Extra: Protecting our underwater cultural heritage

268

Can a robot be a person?

269

Futureproof Extra: The World of Dust

270

What our eyes can tell us about our health

271

Futureproof Extra: How rotational force is essential to everything

272

Will we soon be able to cure obesity?

273

Futureproof Extra: The Science of Cultured Meat

274

Womb transplants and the future of reproductive medicine

275

Futureproof Extra: Capturing Cosmic Dust

276

Can we reverse or stop ageing completely?

277

Futureproof Extra: Burying nuclear waste in Finland

278

How to build a spacesuit

279

Futureproof Extra: The Science of Suncream

280

Black Holes in Bathtubs

281

How technology affects our sleep

282

The relationship between your gut and your relationships

283

Futureproof Extra: How To Expect The Unexpected

284

How deepfakes impact your memory

285

Weapons of the Future, The Fibonacci Sequence & Cryo Conservation

286

Futureproof Extra: Geothermal Power

287

MDMA as a treatment for PTSD

288

Futureproof Extra: Ηow air pollution affects our health

289

The Woman Who Feels No Pain

290

Futureproof Extra: Harvesting electricity from thin air

291

The development of a new drug to prevent blood clotting

292

Futureproof Extra: Creating the First Synthetic Human Embryo

293

Why Ireland Has Fewer Earthquakes Than Britain

294

Futureproof Extra: The Dangers & Opportunities of Artificial Intelligence

295

Tackling the growing problem of light pollution

296

Futureproof Extra: Combating Bad Data & Misleading Numbers

297

Innovating Healthcare: Galway's Clinical Revolution

298

Futureproof Extra: Immunology Breakthrough

299

The First Egyptian Astronaut

300

Futureproof Extra: AI Mindreading

301

Why can’t we breathe underwater?

302

Futureproof Extra: Is Immortality by 2045 Possible?

303

The Science of Measurement

304

Futureproof Extra: The Secrets Of Our Seas

305

Lab-Grown Blood

306

Futureproof Extra: Curing Hearing Loss

307

Vaccine Patches

308

Futureproof Extra: The Future of Surrogacy & AI

309

Short Term Memory Illusions

310

Futureproof Extra: 'JUICE' Mission & Exploring Jupiter

311

Injectable Brain Implants

312

Futureproof Extra: Interpreting Alien Signals

313

Have we smelled everything in the world?

314

Futureproof Extra: How are diamonds formed?

315

Thomas Hertog on space, time, and working with Stephen Hawking

316

Futureproof Extra: The Trust Race

317

Tickertape Synesthesia & The Future of Quantum Computing

318

Futureproof Extra: Tenacious Beasts

319

Space prisons & other realities of living beyond Earth

320

Is ChatGPT the beginning of a general AI revolution?

321

Futureproof Extra: Ireland's first solar-powered racing car

322

Futureproof Gold: Face Blindness & Super Recognition

323

Do facial expressions influence our emotional state?

324

The Psychology of Revenge

325

Futureproof Extra: Will we soon be living on the moon?

326

The Science of Antidepressants

327

Creating a contraceptive pill for men

328

How to conduct an autopsy

329

Futureproof Extra: Underwater Avalanches

330

The Science of Sleep & Dreams

331

Do facial expressions influence our emotional state?

332

The Science of Semiconductors

333

Understanding Endometriosis With Single-Cell Genomics

334

Futureproof Extra: Hybrid Biomaterials for Spinal Cord Injuries

335

Origins of the Africanized Honey Bee

336

Futureproof Extra: What makes Roman concrete so duarble?

337

How to build the first city on Mars

338

Futureproof Extra: The Benefits of Sperm Swimming in Groups

339

Is it getting harder to maintain focus?

340

Futureproof Special: The Best of 2022

341

Futureproof Extra: Beyond Our Five Senses

342

Do Dark Matter & Dark Energy Actually Exist?

343

Futureproof Gold: Evolution's Bite

344

Futureproof Extra: The Origins of Sentience

345

Is Human Hibernation A Possibility?

346

Futureproof Extra: The Art of Making the Invisible Visible

347

Evidence of the Multiverse

348

Futureproof Gold: Enemies of the State

349

Futureproof Live: Is there a limit to our intelligence?

350

Futureproof Live: Is it possible to run forever?

351

Futureproof Extra: Neurostimulation in E-Sports

352

Gravity Batteries

353

The Sounds We Cannot Hear & What Can We Take To Make Us Live Longer?

354

Using AI to fight blindness

355

What is energy anyway?

356

Futureproof Extra: How do we tackle chronic pain?

357

Can Humpback whales be altruistic?

358

Is “Gamification” making fools of all of us?

359

Futureproof Extra: The science behind bees' waggle dance

360

Futureproof Extra: The new science of the heart

361

Human Organs-on-Chips

362

Futureproof Extra: The End of Medicine As We Know It

363

Thorium Nuclear Reactors

364

Futureproof Extra: The Large Hadron Collider & The Search for a Fifth Force

365

Longevity, Immortality and the quest to defeat death with Aubrey De Grey

366

The Future of Transport

367

Futureproof Extra: Survival of the Richest

368

Exploring the Idea of Plant Intelligence

369

Futureproof Extra: What Animals Can Teach Us About Living Longer

370

Futureproof Extra: The Genetic Age

371

Chemputers & The Future of Chemistry

372

The Futureproof Language Special

373

Futureproof Extra: Prader-Willi Syndrome

374

The Science of Attraction

375

Futureproof Extra: The Last Days of the Dinosaurs

376

Inside The Mind of a Bee

377

Futureproof Extra: The Trouble with Cloning Birds

378

Why Usain Bolt Can’t Outrun Your Cat

379

Futureproof Extra: Why Do We See Ghosts?

380

Is Animal Translation Possible?

381

Futureproof Extra: The Science of Bisexuality

382

The Hidden Depths of Animal Perception

383

The Dream Machine

384

Gazing Into the Deepest Depths of the Cosmos

385

Futureproof Extra: The Secret Perfume of Birds

386

How To Change Someone's Mind

387

Futureproof Gold: DARPA - The Pentagon's Brain

388

Futureproof Extra: The Cutting-Edge Tech of Modern Operating Theatres

389

A Brief History of Weaponised Insects

390

Futureproof Gold: What is Time?

391

Futureproof Extra: Fair Seas & Potecting Our Marine Habitats

392

SIRT 6: The Longevity Gene

393

Could Google's LaMDA Really Be Sentient?

394

How The Science of Dogs Changed The Science of Life

395

Futureproof Extra: Treating Spinal Cord Injuries

396

Futureproof Extra: How Sensors Shape Our Everyday Life

397

What Does It Mean To Be Alive?

398

Futureproof Gold: The Science of Smell

399

Futureproof Special: United By DNA

400

Futureproof Extra: The Sound of The Universe & Everything In It

401

The Cutting-Edge Science of Transplants

402

Futureproof Extra: A Genetic History of the Americas

403

What Happened Before The Big Bang?

404

The Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory

405

Futureproof Extra: Upcycling CO2

406

A New Understanding Of Epilepsy

407

What Goes In To Designing A Rollercoaster?

408

Futureproof Extra: Are Smaller Scorpions More Deadly

409

Sequencing the Complete Human Genome

410

Futureproof Extra: Paleoburrows

411

50 Years of the The Dunedin Study

412

Futureproof Extra: What We Don't Know About Gravity

413

Creating Synthetic Alcohol

414

Futureproof Extra: The Joy of Science with Jim Al-Khalili

415

Designing a Vaccine for Covid-19

416

Futureproof Extra: Why Do We Hate?

417

The End of the Age of Astronauts

418

Futureproof Extra: Genomics

419

How Motorsport Science Can Save The World

420

Futureproof Extra: The Expectation Effect

421

Can Animals Detect Natural Disasters?

422

Futureproof Extra: Measuring Intelligence

423

NeoMimix: The New Sperm Selection Technology

424

Futureproof Extra: The Winchcombe Lockdown Meteorite

425

A Forensic Look at Solving Crimes

426

Futureproof Extra: Hybrid Humans

427

Unraveling the Mysteries of our Ancient Dead

428

What Sleep Can Teach Us About Epilepsy

429

Can Geoengineering Help in the Fight Against Climate Change?

430

Why Are We So Obsessed With Measuring Time?

431

Why Is Chewing So Important?

432

Could We Be On The Verge Of A Vaccine For MS?

433

Futureproof Extra: How Do We Navigate?

434

Where Are All The Irish Dinosaurs?

435

Futureproof Extra: A Natural History of the Future

436

What Life In Space Teaches Us About Life On Earth

437

Futureproof Gold: The Milgram Experiments

438

Futureproof Extra: The Robbers Cave Experiment

439

What Is Testosterone?

440

Futureproof Extra: Reading Monkey Brains with AI

441

Why Do We Kiss?

442

Futureproof Extra: Resignation Syndrome & Other Mysterious Illnesses

443

FutureProof Gold: The Pentagon's Brain

444

How Military Funding Shapes What We Know About The Oceans

445

Deepfakes: Have We Crossed The Uncanny Valley?

446

Futureproof Extra: Of Sound Mind

447

Can We Make Synthetic Blood?

448

The Cosmos, Blackholes & Time Loops With Neil deGrasse Tyson

449

Futureproof Extra: The Invisible Universe

450

Can Self-Driving Cars Be Moral?

451

The Intricate Skills Required For Bomb Disposal

452

Futureproof Extra: Fighting Infectious Diseases

453

Life As We Made It