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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.CONVERSATION THAT COUNTS | Ireland’s national independent talk station for news, sport, analysis and entertainmentListen to Newstalk at http://newstalk.com/listenlive | Download the GoLoud app now, the new home for Newstalk

  1. 448

    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 Doctors Can Fail Us – and How AI Could Save Lives’.

  2. 447

    Building a Warp Drive

    Guests:Dr. Katy Clough, Astrophysicist at Queen Mary University of LondonAnnie Curtis Body Research Lecturer in RCSIShane Bergin, Physicist & Assistant Prof in Science Education at UCD

  3. 446

    Extra: How apples are engineered

    Guest: Kate Evans, Professor in the Department of Horticulture at Washington State University

  4. 445

    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, CanadaJessamyn Fairfield from NUI GalwayMatthew Campbell from TCD

  5. 444

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

    Guest: Scott Waitukaitis, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria in Klosterneuburg

  6. 443

    The Dawn of Writing

    Guests:Genevieve Von Petzinger, Paleoanthropologist and Rock Art Researcher and Project Director of the LIAACAR Project (The Living, Intelligent Archive of Ancient Culture, Art and Relational Archeology)Dr. Ruth Freeman from Science Foundation IrelandShane Bergin, Physicist & Assistant Professor in Science Education at UCD

  7. 442

    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’

  8. 441

    Building a Robotic Oesophagus

    Guests:Dr Eoin O'Cearbhaill, Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering at University College DublinDr Shane Bergin, Physicist at UCDDr Lara Dungan, Immunologist and Medic

  9. 440

    Why should we avoid creating contrails?

    Guests:Dr Jessie Smith, Research Associate in Sustainable Aviation at the Department of Engineering at the University of CambridgeDr Fergus McAuliffe, Head of Research Engagement and Impact at Trinity College DublinDr Shelley Brady, Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics at DCU

  10. 439

    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

  11. 438

    What happens during a hallucination?

    Guests:Dr Anna Georgiades, Lecturer in Early Intervention in Psychosis at King's College LondonDr Ruth FreemanDr John Regan

  12. 437

    Extra: The Origins of Our Musical Ability

    Guest: Dr Ani Patel, Tufts University, Massachusetts

  13. 436

    How The Brain Can Recover Forgotten Memories

    Guests:Dr Benjamin J. Griffiths, University of NottinghamDr Ruth Freeman, Research IrelandDr Tara Shine, Environmental Scientist

  14. 435

    Extra: Why animals see the world at different speeds

    Guest: Dr Kevin Healy, Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Galway

  15. 434

    What you don’t know about respiration

    Guests:New York Times bestselling author and Science Journalist James NestorDr Ruth FreemanDr Lara Dungan

  16. 433

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

    Guest: Dr Todd Vogel, Research Fellow in Psychology at the University of Birmingham

  17. 432

    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 University of SouthamptonDr Tara Shine, Environemental ScientistProfessor Matthew Campbell, Head of Department at the Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin

  18. 431

    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

  19. 430

    Predicting Scorpion Strikes

    Guests:Dr Michel Dugon, Assistant Professor in Zoology and Principal Investigator of the Venom Systems Lab at the University of GalwayDr Jessamyn Fairfield, Lecturer in the School of Natural Sciences at the University of GalwayDr Laura Hayes, Research Fellow at the School of Cosmic Physics at DIAS

  20. 429

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

    Guest:With Prof Jon Wade, Associate Professor of Planetary Materials, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford

  21. 428

    Making Life with Artificial Biological Intelligence

    Guests: Dr Shelley Brady, Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics at DCUDr Shane Bergin, physicist at University College Dublin Adrian Woolfson, author of ‘The Future of Species: Authoring Life by means of Artificial Biological Intelligence’ 

  22. 427

    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

  23. 426

    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 the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, at the University of Edinburgh

  24. 425

    Extra: What Is Childhood Dementia?

    Guest: Prof Matthew Campbell, Head of the Genetics Department and Chair of Neurovascular Genetics at Trinity College Dublin

  25. 424

    Building a womb lining in the lab

    Guests: Dr Susan Kelleher, School of Chemical Sciences at DCUDr Shane Bergin, physicist at University College DublinDr Peter Rugg-Gunn, group leader at the Babraham Institute at the University of Cambridge 

  26. 423

    Extra: Turning muscle signals into speech

    Guest: Professor Luigi Occhipinti, Research Professor of Smart Electronics, Biosystems and AI, at Cambridge University

  27. 422

    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 Technological University, SingaporeDr Shelley Brady, DCU’s Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data AnalyticsDr John Regan, Research Fellow in the Department of Theoretical Physics at Maynooth University

  28. 421

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

    Guest: Dr Dylan Williams, Principal Research Fellow in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology at UCL

  29. 420

    Tackling Space Debris

    Guests:Dr Penelope Wozniakiewicz, Senior Lecturer in Space Science at the University of KentDr Shane BerginDr John Regan

  30. 419

    Extra: What exactly is DNA?

    Guest: Dr Kevin Mitchell, Associate Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin

  31. 418

    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 GalwayDr Jessamyn Fairfield from the School of Natural Sciences at the University of GalwayDr Fergus McAuliffe, Head of Research Engagement and Impact at Trinity College Dublin

  32. 417

    Extra: Earth’s Early Wildfires

    Guest: Dr Clayton Magill, Associate Professor of Biogeochemistry at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland

  33. 416

    The Surprising Flaws of Evolution

    Dr Andy Dobson, author of ‘Flaws of Nature: The Limits and Liabilities of Natural Selection’

  34. 415

    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

  35. 414

    Extra: CAR T-Cell Therapy (Best of)

    Guests:Dr Larry Bacon, Consultant Haematologist from St James’s HospitalDr Nicola Gardiner, Chief Medical Scientist at the Cryobiology Laboratory Stem Cell Facility at St James’s

  36. 413

    Best of Futureproof: Creating Dark Matter, Curing Addiction

    Guests:Dr John Regan, Maynooth UniversityYale Neuroscientist Vaughn Steele

  37. 412

    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

  38. 411

    Best of Futureproof: Mirror Life & The Science of Embalming

    Guests:Kate Adamala, Associate Professor of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development at the University of MinnesotaGlyn Tallon, Founder of Tallon Mortuary Specialists in Navan

  39. 410

    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 Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at Galway University Hospitals.

  40. 409

    The winter hibernation gene in animals

    Guests:Professor Tyler Stevenson, Head of Physiology, Ageing & Welfare at the University of GlasgowDr Ruth Freeman of Research IrelandDr Fergus McAuliffe, Head of Research Engagement and Impact at Trinity College Dublin

  41. 408

    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

  42. 407

    Can we witness stars form planets?

    Guests:Dr Emma Whelan, Department of Experimental Physics, Maynooth UniversityDr Tara Shine, Change by DegreesDr Ruth Freeman, Research Ireland

  43. 406

    Extra: How we exploit artificial intelligence

    Guest: Taha Yasseri, Director of the Joint Centre for Sociology of Humans and Machines at Trinity College Dublin

  44. 405

    Is the human mind the next frontier in warfare?

    Guests:Malcolm Dando, Emeritus Professor at the School of Social Sciences at the University of BradfordDr Shelley Brady of DCUDr Shane Bergin of UCD

  45. 404

    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’

  46. 403

    Treatment-resistant depression

    Guests:Professor Valerie Voon, Professor of Neuropsychiatry and Neuromodulation at the University of CambridgeDr Jessamyn Fairfield of the School of Natural Sciences at the University of GalwayDr Shane Bergin, Physicist at UCD

  47. 402

    Extra: The Age of Rock

    Guest: Dr Anjana Khatwa, earth scientist and author of ‘The Whispers of Rock – Stories from the Earth'

  48. 401

    Creating 'Mirror Life'

    Guests:Kate Adamala, Associate Professor of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development at the University of MinnesotaImmunologist Dr Lara DunganDr John Regan, Department of Theoretical Physics at Maynooth University

  49. 400

    Extra: How chimps rationally revise their beliefs & face blindness

    Guests:Dr Emily Sanford, Postdoctoral Researcher in Psychology at the University of California BerkeleyFiona Newell, Professor of Experimental Psychology at the Trinity Institute of NeurosciencesMeike Ramon, Cognitive Neuroscientist and Assistant Professor at the University of Fribourg

  50. 399

    Recovering Lost Memories

    Guests:Prof Jane Aspell, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Head of the Self and Body Lab at Anglia Ruskin UniversityDr Ruth Freeman of Research IrelandDr Shelley Brady, DCU

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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.CONVERSATION THAT COUNTS | Ireland’s national independent talk station for news, sport, analysis and entertainmentListen to Newstalk at http://newstalk.com/listenlive | Download the GoLoud app now, the new home for Newstalk

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