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. 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

Location:

Dublin, Ireland

Genres:

Science

Technology Podcasts

Science & Technology News

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. 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

Twitter:

@newstalkscience

Language:

English

Contact:

Newstalk HQ Marconi House Digges Lane Dublin 2 1890 453106

Website:

http://www.newstalk.com/Futureproof

Email:

science@newstalk.com

Episodes

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

Duración: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

Duración: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

Duración: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’

Duración: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

Duración: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'

Duración: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

Duración: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

Duración: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

Duración:00:35:04

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

11/4/2025

Guest: Ana Angelova Volponi of King’s College London

Duración:00:18:05

Unusual Metamorphoses

11/2/2025

Guests: Author Oren Harman Shane Bergin & Susan Kelleher

Duración:00:28:14

Extra: The Origin of Dark Energy

10/28/2025

Guest: Prof Kate Maguire, Professor In Astrophysics at Trinity College Dublin

Duración: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

Duración:00:30:42