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Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea
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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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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’.
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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
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Extra: How apples are engineered
Guest: Kate Evans, Professor in the Department of Horticulture at Washington State University
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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
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Extra: Why can’t we figure out static electricity?
Guest: Scott Waitukaitis, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria in Klosterneuburg
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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
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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’
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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
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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
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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
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What happens during a hallucination?
Guests:Dr Anna Georgiades, Lecturer in Early Intervention in Psychosis at King's College LondonDr Ruth FreemanDr John Regan
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Extra: The Origins of Our Musical Ability
Guest: Dr Ani Patel, Tufts University, Massachusetts
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How The Brain Can Recover Forgotten Memories
Guests:Dr Benjamin J. Griffiths, University of NottinghamDr Ruth Freeman, Research IrelandDr Tara Shine, Environmental Scientist
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Extra: Why animals see the world at different speeds
Guest: Dr Kevin Healy, Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Galway
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What you don’t know about respiration
Guests:New York Times bestselling author and Science Journalist James NestorDr Ruth FreemanDr Lara Dungan
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Extra: What influences your willingness to be helpful towards strangers?
Guest: Dr Todd Vogel, Research Fellow in Psychology at the University of Birmingham
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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’
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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
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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
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Extra: What Is Childhood Dementia?
Guest: Prof Matthew Campbell, Head of the Genetics Department and Chair of Neurovascular Genetics at Trinity College Dublin
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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
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Extra: Turning muscle signals into speech
Guest: Professor Luigi Occhipinti, Research Professor of Smart Electronics, Biosystems and AI, at Cambridge University
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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
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Extra: What if stopping Alzheimer’s means targeting one gene?
Guest: Dr Dylan Williams, Principal Research Fellow in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology at UCL
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Tackling Space Debris
Guests:Dr Penelope Wozniakiewicz, Senior Lecturer in Space Science at the University of KentDr Shane BerginDr John Regan
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Extra: What exactly is DNA?
Guest: Dr Kevin Mitchell, Associate Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin
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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
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Extra: Earth’s Early Wildfires
Guest: Dr Clayton Magill, Associate Professor of Biogeochemistry at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland
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The Surprising Flaws of Evolution
Dr Andy Dobson, author of ‘Flaws of Nature: The Limits and Liabilities of Natural Selection’
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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
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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
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Best of Futureproof: Creating Dark Matter, Curing Addiction
Guests:Dr John Regan, Maynooth UniversityYale Neuroscientist Vaughn Steele
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Extra: How we exploit artificial intelligence
Guest: Taha Yasseri, Director of the Joint Centre for Sociology of Humans and Machines at Trinity College Dublin
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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
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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’
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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
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Extra: The Age of Rock
Guest: Dr Anjana Khatwa, earth scientist and author of ‘The Whispers of Rock – Stories from the Earth'
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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
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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
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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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