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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 entertainment Listen to Newstalk at http://newstalk.com/listenlive | Download the GoLoud app now, the new home for Newstalk

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Ireland

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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 entertainment Listen to Newstalk at http://newstalk.com/listenlive | Download the GoLoud app now, the new home for Newstalk

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English


Episodes
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Best of Futureproof: Creating Dark Matter, Curing Addiction

12/28/2025
Guests: Dr John Regan, Maynooth University Yale Neuroscientist Vaughn Steele

Duration:00:33:34

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Extra: Obtaining Fingerprints from Ammunition (Best of)

12/23/2025
Guest: Dr Colm McKeever, Assistant Lecturer and Researcher in Analytical Chemistry, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Biotechnology, at TUS

Duration:00:14:09

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Best of Futureproof: Mirror Life & The Science of Embalming

12/21/2025
Guests: Kate Adamala, Associate Professor of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development at the University of Minnesota Glyn Tallon, Founder of Tallon Mortuary Specialists in Navan

Duration:00:44:41

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Extra: Is butt breathing achievable?

12/16/2025
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.

Duration:00:14:51

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The winter hibernation gene in animals

12/13/2025
Guests: Professor Tyler Stevenson, Head of Physiology, Ageing & Welfare at the University of Glasgow Dr Ruth Freeman of Research Ireland Dr Fergus McAuliffe, Head of Research Engagement and Impact at Trinity College Dublin

Duration:00:32:50

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Extra: Vitamin D is linked to BMI?

12/9/2025
Guest: Prof Lena Zgaga, Professor in Epidemiology at the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the School of Health in Trinity

Duration:00:13:30

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Can we witness stars form planets?

12/6/2025
Guests: Dr Emma Whelan, Department of Experimental Physics, Maynooth University Dr Tara Shine, Change by Degrees Dr Ruth Freeman, Research Ireland

Duration:00:34:27

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Extra: How we exploit artificial intelligence

12/2/2025
Guest: Taha Yasseri, Director of the Joint Centre for Sociology of Humans and Machines at Trinity College Dublin

Duration:00:15:14

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Is the human mind the next frontier in warfare?

12/1/2025
Guests: Malcolm Dando, Emeritus Professor at the School of Social Sciences at the University of Bradford Dr Shelley Brady of DCU Dr Shane Bergin of UCD

Duration:00:29:06

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Extra: The one thing you need to know about electricity

11/25/2025
Guest: Marcus Chown, Science Writer and author of ‘The One Thing You Need to Know’

Duration:00:19:56

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Treatment-resistant depression

11/22/2025
Guests: Professor Valerie Voon, Professor of Neuropsychiatry and Neuromodulation at the University of Cambridge Dr Jessamyn Fairfield of the School of Natural Sciences at the University of Galway Dr Shane Bergin, Physicist at UCD

Duration:00:26:54

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Extra: The Age of Rock

11/18/2025
Guest: Dr Anjana Khatwa, earth scientist and author of ‘The Whispers of Rock – Stories from the Earth'

Duration:00:07:15

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Creating 'Mirror Life'

11/16/2025
Guests: Kate Adamala, Associate Professor of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development at the University of Minnesota Immunologist Dr Lara Dungan Dr John Regan, Department of Theoretical Physics at Maynooth University

Duration:00:41:04

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Extra: How chimps rationally revise their beliefs & face blindness

11/11/2025
Guests: Dr Emily Sanford, Postdoctoral Researcher in Psychology at the University of California Berkeley Fiona Newell, Professor of Experimental Psychology at the Trinity Institute of Neurosciences Meike Ramon, Cognitive Neuroscientist and Assistant Professor at the University of Fribourg

Duration:00:35:17

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Recovering Lost Memories

11/9/2025
Guests: Prof Jane Aspell, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Head of the Self and Body Lab at Anglia Ruskin University Dr Ruth Freeman of Research Ireland Dr Shelley Brady, DCU

Duration:00:35:04

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

11/4/2025
Guest: Ana Angelova Volponi of King’s College London

Duration:00:18:05

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Unusual Metamorphoses

11/2/2025
Guests: Author Oren Harman Shane Bergin & Susan Kelleher

Duration:00:28:14

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Extra: The Origin of Dark Energy

10/28/2025
Guest: Prof Kate Maguire, Professor In Astrophysics at Trinity College Dublin

Duration:00:10:25

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Recovering fingerprints from ammunition for forensics

10/26/2025
Guests: Dr Colm McKeever, Assistant Lecturer and Researcher in Analytical Chemistry, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Biotechnology, at TUS Dr Shelley Brady, DCU Dr Laura Hayes, DIAS

Duration:00:30:42

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Extra: How to verify supplement quality

10/21/2025
Guest: Professor John Nolan

Duration:00:16:15