Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea
Science
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. Listen and subscribe to Futureproof with Johnathan McCrea on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App. You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'
Location:
Dublin, Ireland
Description:
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. Listen and subscribe to Futureproof with Johnathan McCrea on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App. You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'
Twitter:
@newstalkscience
Language:
English
Contact:
Newstalk HQ Marconi House Digges Lane Dublin 2 1890 453106
Email:
science@newstalk.com
Episodes
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
Why do pregnant women get morning sickness?
10/19/2025
Guests:
Professor Molly Fox of UCLA
Laura Hayes
Shane Bergin
Duration:00:36:42
Extra: The Future of Solar Energy
10/14/2025
Guest: Paul Deane, Clean Energy Futures Lecturer at UCC
Duration:00:11:05
The Harms of Over-Diagnosis
10/12/2025
Guests:
Neurologist Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan
Shelley Brady, DCU
Shane Bergin, UCD
Duration:00:38:56
Extra: Huntington’s disease slowed with gene therapy
10/7/2025
Guest: Dr Lauren Byrne, Principal Investigator at the Huntington’s Disease Centre at UCL
Duration:00:14:42
Rebuilding Our Body With Regenerative Medicine
10/5/2025
Guests:
Mary Roach, Science Author
Dr Laura Hayes, DIAS
Dr Jessamyn Fairfield, University of Galway
Duration:00:29:19
Extra: Making the world's smallest violin
9/30/2025
Guest: Prof Kelly Morrison, Professor of Experimental Physics at Loughborough University
Duration:00:11:44
The creation of artificial cartilage
9/28/2025
Guests:
Prof Oren A. Scherman, Professor of Supramolecular & Polymer Chemistry, and Director of the Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis at the University of Cambridge
Dr John Regan
Dr Lara Dungan
Duration:00:37:50
Extra: Dinosaur eggs directly dated for the first time
9/23/2025
Guest: Professor Maria McNamara, Professor of Palaeontology at University College Cork
Duration:00:13:23
"Clearest sign" of life on Mars
9/21/2025
Guests:
Professor Sanjeev Gupta, Professor of Earth Science at Imperial College London
Dr Susan Kelleher of DCU
Dr Shane Bergin of UCD
Duration:00:33:01
Extra: Heart attacks may be triggered by infections
9/16/2025
Guest: Prof Claudia Monaco, Professor of Cardiovascular Inflammation at the University of Oxford
Duration:00:14:18
Dublin head scanner is 'breakthrough' in brain research
9/14/2025
Guests:
Prof Redmond O'Connell, Professor in Decision Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin
Dr Ruth Freeman of Research Ireland
Dr Shane Bergin of UCD
Duration:00:31:09