Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea
Science Podcasts
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.
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Science Podcasts
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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
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Episodes
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Unusual Metamorphoses
11/2/2025
Guests:
Author Oren Harman
Shane Bergin & Susan Kelleher
Duration:00:28:14
Extra: The Origin of Dark Energy
10/28/2025
Guest: Prof Kate Maguire, Professor In Astrophysics at Trinity College Dublin
Duration:00:10:25
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
Extra: How to verify supplement quality
10/21/2025
Guest: Professor John Nolan
Duration:00:16:15