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Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

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Extra: How micro-robots will help detect cancer in patients

Guest: Nikita Greenidge

Apr 15, 202514 min

What we know (and don't know) about the cosmos

Guests:Dr Laura HayesDr Shane BerginBrian Schmidt

Apr 13, 202540 min

Extra: Why mosquitos taste before they bite

Guest: Lisa Baik, Postdoctoral researcher with the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale University

Apr 8, 202512 min

Building a super particle collider

Guests:Dr Jessamyn Fairfield from the University of GalwayMedic and Immunologist Dr Lara DunganDr Sarah Williams, Assistant Professor of High Energy Physics at Cambridge University

Apr 6, 202533 min

Extra: Why We Believe In Conspiracy Theories

Guest: Dr Daniel Jolley, Assistant Professor in Social Psychology at the University of Nottingham

Apr 1, 202514 min

Self-Assembling Long-Lasting Contraceptive

Guests:Dr Ruth FreemanDr Lara DunganDr Giovanni Traverso, Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a Gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the US

Mar 30, 202533 min

Extra: Using Virtual Reality To Conquer Fear of Public Speaking

Guest: Dr Chris MacDonald, Univeristy of Cambridge

Mar 25, 202516 min

The Great Whale Pee Funnel

Guests:Dr Laura HayesDr Jessamyn FairfieldJoe Roman, Biologist at the University of Vermont

Mar 23, 202532 min

Octopuses’ Weird Mating

Guest: Dr Wen-Sung Chung

Mar 18, 202514 min

When Do We Become Conscious?

Guests:Dr Laura HayesDr Ruth FreemanDr Lorina Naci

Mar 16, 202532 min

Extra: Rare Blood Plasma

Guest: Dr Andrew Godfrey, Medical & Scientific Director of the Irish Blood Transfusion Service

Mar 11, 202514 min

The Future of Space Food

Guests: Jessamyn FairfieldTara ShineDr Joshua Pearce

Mar 9, 202534 min

Extra: The Advancement of AI

Guest: Dr Brian MacNamee, UCD

Mar 4, 202517 min

Should we reintroduce wolves to Ireland?

Guests: Dr Jonny Hanson QUBDr Annie CurtisDr Shane Bergin

Mar 2, 202532 min

Extra: How our Brains Handle Aggression

Guest: Dayu Lin, Neuroscientist and Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience and Physiology at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine.

Feb 25, 202511 min

Understanding More About the Sun & The Science of Risk

Guests:Dr Laura Hayes, Solar Physicist.Don Ross, Professor of Philosophy and Behavioural Economist.

Feb 23, 202542 min

Extra: Solving Obesity

Guest: Professor Giles Yeo

Feb 18, 202515 min

The Migration Journey for ‘Animal Athletes’

Guests: Dr Lucy HawkesDr Ruth FreemanDr Laura Dungan

Feb 16, 202534 min

Extra: Meteorite Hunting

Guest: Joshua Howgego, author of 'The Meteorite Hunters'

Feb 11, 202517 min

Toxic Semen in Mosquitoes

Guests:Dr Ruth Freeman.Dr Laura Dungan.Associate Professor in Applied BiosSciences at Macquarie University, Maciej Maselko.

Feb 9, 202535 min

Futureproof Extra: Bioprinted Hearts

Guest: Professor Andrew Daly, Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Galway.

Feb 4, 202518 min

When Mega-Icebergs Melt

Guest: Prof Geraint Tarling of the British Antarctic Survey.Also Newsround with Shane Bergin and Ruth Freeman.

Feb 2, 202529 min

Extra: What is AMOC? And Why is it Changing?

Guest: Dr Gerard McCarthy, Oceanographer with ICARUS Climate Research Centre and Department of Geography.

Jan 28, 202518 min

How New Memories Are Formed

Guest: Antonio Fernando Ruiz, Assistant Professor and Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences at Cornell University.

Jan 26, 202530 min

Extra: Carbon Dioxide's Secrets

Guest: Dr Hana Jurikova, senior research fellow at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of St Andrews.

Jan 21, 202515 min

How Decontamination Happens in Space

Guest: Dr Lokesh Joshi, Stokes Professor of Glycosciences at the Infectious Diseases Section of the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences at the University of Galway.

Jan 19, 202528 min

Extra: The Wallace Line

Guest: Ian McFadden, Lecturer in Computational Ecology, Queen Mary University of London

Jan 14, 202513 min

What Trees Can Tell Us

Guest: Tristan Gooley, author of 'How to Read a Tree'

Jan 12, 202533 min

Extra: Bird Flu Epidemic in American Cattle

Guest: Maryn McKenna, Author and Journalist.

Jan 7, 202515 min

What connects cancer & Alzheimer's disease?

Guest: Erin Abner, Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health at the University of Kentucky.

Jan 5, 202542 min

The Best of 2024

Guests:Les Johnson - Author & Chief Technologist with NASA @LesAuthor @IRG_Space.Robin Tanamachi - Associate Professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at Purdue University @tornatrix @PurdueEAPS @LifeAtPurdue.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 @nyugsom_ccrs @nyulangone.

Dec 29, 202447 min

Extra: What Animals Understand About Death

Guest: Susana Monso - Philosopher of Animal Minds at the National Distance Education University in Madrid and Author of Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death @UNED.

Dec 24, 202420 min

Into the Unknown

Guest: Kelsey Johnson - Professor of Astronomy at the University of Virginia, former president of the American Astronomical Society & author of Into the Unknown: The Quest to Understand the Mysteries of the Cosmos @UVaAstroLabs @UVA.

Dec 22, 202430 min

Extra: Mushroom Robots

Rob Shepherd - Professor in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University @CornellMAE @Cornell.

Dec 17, 202413 min

How quantum computing works

Dr. Ciaran Hickey - Assistant Professor in the School of Physics at UCD and a member of UCD's Centre for Quantum Engineering, Science and Technology (C-QuEST) @Ciaran__Hickey @cquest_ucd @ucddublin.

Dec 17, 202434 min

Extra: Private speech in twins

Nancy Segal - Professor of Psychology, Director of the Twin Studies Center at California State University and author of 9 books about twins @nlsegal.

Dec 10, 202413 min

Can death be abolished?

Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston - Neuroscientist and author of The Future Loves You: How and Why We Should Abolish Death @ariel_zj.

Dec 8, 202447 min

Extra: The Prosthetic Memory System

Dr. Robert Hampson - Professor of Physiology/Pharmacology and Neurology at Wake Forest School of Medicine and lead author of this paper @wakehealth

Dec 3, 202413 min

Evolution's Bite and the Synthetic Age

Peter Ungar - Paleoanthropologist and Author of Evolution’s Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins @PeterSUngarChristopher Preston - Professor of Philosophy at the University Of Montana and Author of The Synthetic Age: Outdesigning Evolution, Resurrecting Species, and Reengineering Our World @SyntheticAge

Dec 1, 202432 min

Extra: Regeneration - The Internal World

Caroline Curtin - Senior lecturer in the Department of Anatomy and Regenerative Medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland @CarolineCurtin8 @AnatRcsiGarry Duffy - Professor of Anatomy and Regenerative Therapies at University of Galway @gduffy00 @uniofgalway

Nov 26, 202416 min

What 'mastering' AI looks like

Jeremy Kahn - AI Editor at Fortune Magazine and author of Mastering AI: A Survival Guide to Our Superpowered Future @jeremyakahn @FortuneMagazine

Nov 24, 202452 min

Extra: Regeneration - Virtual Worlds

Peter Lynch - Lecturer in Computer Games in TUD 0868130745 @WeAreTUDublinAphra Kerr - Professor of Information & Communication Studies and a senior adviser at the UCD Centre for Digital Policy 0872891531 @AphraK @DigitalPolicyIE

Nov 19, 202415 min

Futureproof Live Science Week Special

Collie Ennis - Science Officer with the Herpetological Society of Ireland, Zoology research associate at Trinity College and co-host of The Critter Shed Podcast Aedin McAdams - PhD student in Trinity College Dublin, researching habitat restoration

Nov 17, 202433 min

Extra: A new blood pressure diagnostic device

David Connolly - Cardiovascular Research Programme Manager - College of Medicine, Nursing Health Sciences at National University of Ireland, Galway.

Nov 12, 202418 min

Landing the Paris Agreement

Todd Stern - Chief US negotiator on climate change for President Barack Obama and author of Landing the Paris Climate Agreement: How It Happened, Why It Matters, and What Comes Next @tsterndc.

Nov 10, 202443 min

Extra: Why are animals the size they are?

Dr. Shovonlal Roy - Ecosystem modeller and Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Reading.

Nov 5, 202416 min

Extra: What Is The Fairest Electoral System?

Now if you’re anything like me, it’s at around this time every four or so years when you once again find yourself wondering how it’s possible that the person who wins the vote to be the next US President can get less votes and still win.It doesn’t seem fair at all but of course there are many ways in which democracy can seem unfair.So just what is the fairset system?Elizabeth Maggie Penn is Professor of Political Science and Quantitative Theory & Methods at Emory University.

Nov 4, 202413 min

Was ancient Greece's Antikythera mechanism the world's first computer?

Mike Edmunds - Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics at Cardiff University & Founding member of the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project @cardiffPHYSX.

Nov 3, 202439 min

Extra: Mapping the brain of a fly

Guest: Tamara Boto - Assistant Professor of Physiology in Trinity College Dublin @TamaraBoto @TCDPhysiology @tcddublin

Oct 29, 202413 min

The future of law enforcement

Guest: Martin Mullins - Director of Transgero and Professor of Risk Manangement at the University of Limerick @mjamullins @transgero @UL

Oct 27, 202433 min