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: Incredible new heart-imaging technology
10/15/2024
Guest: Dr. Christoph Hennersperger, Co-Founder and CTO, Luma Vision.
Duration:00:15:59
How drugs are discovered
10/13/2024
Guest: Dr William Pao, former Chief Development Officer at Pfizer and Head of Research at Roche and author of 'Breakthrough: The Quest for Life-Changing Medicines'.
Duration:00:30:52
Extra: The Myths of Evolution
10/8/2024
Simon Conway Morris - Emeritus Professor of Evolutionary Paleobiology at Cambridge University and Author of From Extraterrestrials to Animal Minds: Six Myths of Evolution @EarthSciCam @Cambridge_Uni
Duration:00:18:27
The Search for Male Contraception
10/6/2024
Logan Nickels - Chief Research Officer with the Male Contraceptive Initiative @MaleBCNow
Duration:00:43:14
Extra: Inflammatory Bowel Disease - What Causes It?
10/1/2024
Guest: Colm Collins, Assistant Professor at the School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Sciences in UCD, and Conway Investigator.
Duration:00:14:38
A brief history of UFOs
9/29/2024
Guest: Greg Eghigian, Professor of History and Bioethics at Pennsylvania State University, Visiting Research Fellow at the Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University, and author of ‘After the Flying Saucers Came’.
Duration:00:34:01
Extra: Lucid Dreaming
9/24/2024
Emma Peters, a PhD student in the Lucid Lab at the University of Bern in Switzerland.
Duration:00:16:35
How AI will change your life
9/22/2024
Patrick Dixon, Futurist Keynote Speaker and author of ‘How AI Will Change Your Life: A Futurist's Guide to a Super-Smart World’.
Duration:00:38:48
Extra: When can we have lab grown meat?
9/17/2024
Seren Kell - Head of science and technology at the Good Food Institute Europe @SerenLaurelKell @GoodFoodEurope
Duration:00:18:43
What happens to your data after you die?
9/15/2024
Carl Öhman - Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Uppsala University and author of The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care @CJ_Ohman @UU_PoliSci
Duration:00:42:28
Extra: What is Psilocybin and how does it work?
9/10/2024
Joshua Siegel - Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.
Duration:00:18:54
Life after death
9/8/2024
Sam Parnia - Director of Critical Care & Resuscitation Research at the New York University School of Medicine and author of Lucid Dying: The New Science Revolutionizing How We Understand Life and Death.
Duration:00:37:11
Extra: How our biology shaped world history
9/3/2024
Guest: Professor Lewis Dartnell, Astrobiology Research Scientist at the University of Westminster and Author of 'Being Human: How Our Biology Shaped World History' @lewis_dartnell
Duration:00:18:40
What really happens during brain surgery
9/1/2024
Guest: Neurosurgeon Ted Schwartz @TedSchwartz13
Duration:00:40:47
Extra: Inflammatory Bowel Disease - What Causes It?
9/1/2024
Guest: Colm Collins, Assistant Professor at the School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Sciences in UCD, and Conway Investigator.
Duration:00:14:37
Extra: A guide to our immune system
8/27/2024
Guest: John Trowsdale, Emeritus Professor of Immunology at the University of Cambridge.
Duration:00:15:16
How neurons encode the meaning of words
8/25/2024
Guest: Ziv Williams, Associate Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School.
Duration:00:39:17
Extra: Is the dream of fusion power dead?
8/20/2024
Guest: Dr. Brian D. Appelbe - Research Fellow in the Physics Department at Imperial College London.
Duration:00:15:58
What is MicroRNA?
8/18/2024
Guest: David Henshall - Professor of Physiology and Medical Physics at RCSI and author of Fine-Tuning Life: A Guide to MicroRNAs, Your Genome's Master Regulators.
Duration:00:37:00
Extra: The Wooden Age
8/13/2024
Dirk Leder - Research associate in the office for Cultural Heritage in Lower Saxony.
Duration:00:18:48