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Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

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Extra: Was there human sacrifice in ancient Rome?

Jun 9, 202613 min

How does sperm work in outer space?

Jun 7, 202633 min

Extra: How microbes tackle pollution

Jun 2, 202615 min

The Chimpanzee War in Uganda

May 31, 202642 min

Extra: New Prostate Cancer Trials in Ireland

May 26, 202614 min

Learning while you sleep!

May 24, 202631 min

Extra: Does science back up weird skincare trends?

May 19, 202615 min

Early flavour memories may shape picky eaters

May 17, 202635 min

Extra: Bodyoids

May 12, 202613 min

What is ‘Forensic Botany’?

May 10, 202641 min

Extra: The Power of Plankton

May 5, 202619 min

The Smell of the Past

May 3, 202638 min

Extra: AI Improving Medicine

Apr 28, 202617 min

Building a Warp Drive

Apr 26, 202631 min

Extra: How apples are engineered

Apr 21, 202617 min

Will AI replace scientists?

Apr 19, 202638 min

Extra: Why can’t we figure out static electricity?

Apr 14, 202618 min

The Dawn of Writing

Apr 12, 202634 min

Extra: Why Are We Going Back To The Moon?

Apr 7, 202616 min

Building a Robotic Oesophagus

Apr 5, 202633 min

Why should we avoid creating contrails?

Guests:Dr Jessie Smith, Research Associate in Sustainable Aviation at the Department of Engineering at the University of CambridgeDr Fergus McAuliffe, Head of Research Engagement and Impact at Trinity College DublinDr Shelley Brady, Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics at DCU

Mar 29, 202631 min

Extra: Movies reconstructed from mouse brain activity

Guest: Dr Joel Bauer, Research Fellow at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour at UCL

Mar 24, 202615 min

What happens during a hallucination?

Guests:Dr Anna Georgiades, Lecturer in Early Intervention in Psychosis at King's College LondonDr Ruth FreemanDr John Regan

Mar 22, 202636 min

Extra: The Origins of Our Musical Ability

Guest: Dr Ani Patel, Tufts University, Massachusetts

Mar 17, 202615 min

How The Brain Can Recover Forgotten Memories

Guests:Dr Benjamin J. Griffiths, University of NottinghamDr Ruth Freeman, Research IrelandDr Tara Shine, Environmental Scientist

Mar 15, 202633 min

Extra: Why animals see the world at different speeds

Guest: Dr Kevin Healy, Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Galway

Mar 10, 202613 min

What you don’t know about respiration

Guests:New York Times bestselling author and Science Journalist James NestorDr Ruth FreemanDr Lara Dungan

Mar 8, 202638 min

Extra: What influences your willingness to be helpful towards strangers?

Guest: Dr Todd Vogel, Research Fellow in Psychology at the University of Birmingham

Mar 3, 202618 min

Clothes with health tracking technology

Guests:Professor Steve Beeby, Chair in Emerging Technologies and Director of the Centre for Flexible Electronics and E-Textiles at the University of SouthamptonDr Tara Shine, Environemental ScientistProfessor Matthew Campbell, Head of Department at the Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin

Mar 1, 202632 min

Extra: What drives the power of our tides and waves?

Guest: Prof Iris Möller, Coastal Geomorphologist and Chair of the Geography Department at Trinity College Dublin

Feb 24, 202614 min

Predicting Scorpion Strikes

Guests:Dr Michel Dugon, Assistant Professor in Zoology and Principal Investigator of the Venom Systems Lab at the University of GalwayDr Jessamyn Fairfield, Lecturer in the School of Natural Sciences at the University of GalwayDr Laura Hayes, Research Fellow at the School of Cosmic Physics at DIAS

Feb 22, 202635 min

Extra: Does the Earth’s core hide vast hydrogen reservoirs?

Guest:With Prof Jon Wade, Associate Professor of Planetary Materials, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford

Feb 17, 202615 min

Making Life with Artificial Biological Intelligence

Guests: Dr Shelley Brady, Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics at DCUDr Shane Bergin, physicist at University College Dublin Adrian Woolfson, author of ‘The Future of Species: Authoring Life by means of Artificial Biological Intelligence’ 

Feb 15, 202634 min

Extra: Solar Maximum and the Northern lights explained

Guest:Dr Alexandra Ruth Fogg, Postdoctoral Fellow in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

Feb 10, 202614 min

What is Aphantasia? Why some brains can’t visualize

Guests: Dr Lara Dungan, immunologist, and Dr Shane Bergin, physicist at University College Dublin Prof Adam Zeman, Honorary Fellow at the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, at the University of Edinburgh

Feb 8, 202635 min

Extra: What Is Childhood Dementia?

Guest: Prof Matthew Campbell, Head of the Genetics Department and Chair of Neurovascular Genetics at Trinity College Dublin

Feb 3, 202611 min

Building a womb lining in the lab

Guests: Dr Susan Kelleher, School of Chemical Sciences at DCUDr Shane Bergin, physicist at University College DublinDr Peter Rugg-Gunn, group leader at the Babraham Institute at the University of Cambridge 

Feb 1, 202636 min

Extra: Turning muscle signals into speech

Guest: Professor Luigi Occhipinti, Research Professor of Smart Electronics, Biosystems and AI, at Cambridge University

Jan 27, 202614 min

Why some wounds won’t heal

Guests:Professor Kimberly Kline, Professor in Microbiology and Molecular Medicine at The University of Geneva and Visiting Scholar at Nanyang Technological University, SingaporeDr Shelley Brady, DCU’s Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data AnalyticsDr John Regan, Research Fellow in the Department of Theoretical Physics at Maynooth University

Jan 25, 202631 min

Extra: What if stopping Alzheimer’s means targeting one gene?

Guest: Dr Dylan Williams, Principal Research Fellow in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology at UCL

Jan 20, 202613 min

Tackling Space Debris

Guests:Dr Penelope Wozniakiewicz, Senior Lecturer in Space Science at the University of KentDr Shane BerginDr John Regan

Jan 18, 202631 min

Extra: What exactly is DNA?

Guest: Dr Kevin Mitchell, Associate Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin

Jan 13, 202613 min

How blood vessels boost lab-grown mini-brains

Guests:Dr Mihai Lomora, Scientist with CÚRAM, the Research Ireland Centre for Medical Devices based at the University of GalwayDr Jessamyn Fairfield from the School of Natural Sciences at the University of GalwayDr Fergus McAuliffe, Head of Research Engagement and Impact at Trinity College Dublin

Jan 11, 202631 min

Extra: Earth’s Early Wildfires

Guest: Dr Clayton Magill, Associate Professor of Biogeochemistry at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland

Jan 6, 202612 min

The Surprising Flaws of Evolution

Dr Andy Dobson, author of ‘Flaws of Nature: The Limits and Liabilities of Natural Selection’

Jan 4, 202621 min

Sustaining human life on the Moon and Mars

Guest: Professor Matthew Gilliham, Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space, at the University of Adelaide

Jan 4, 202615 min

Extra: CAR T-Cell Therapy (Best of)

Guests:Dr Larry Bacon, Consultant Haematologist from St James’s HospitalDr Nicola Gardiner, Chief Medical Scientist at the Cryobiology Laboratory Stem Cell Facility at St James’s

Dec 30, 202519 min

Best of Futureproof: Creating Dark Matter, Curing Addiction

Guests:Dr John Regan, Maynooth UniversityYale Neuroscientist Vaughn Steele

Dec 28, 202533 min

Extra: Obtaining Fingerprints from Ammunition (Best of)

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

Dec 23, 202514 min

Best of Futureproof: Mirror Life & The Science of Embalming

Guests:Kate Adamala, Associate Professor of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development at the University of MinnesotaGlyn Tallon, Founder of Tallon Mortuary Specialists in Navan

Dec 21, 202544 min