
Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea
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Extra: How micro-robots will help detect cancer in patients
Guest: Nikita Greenidge
What we know (and don't know) about the cosmos
Guests:Dr Laura HayesDr Shane BerginBrian Schmidt
Extra: Why mosquitos taste before they bite
Guest: Lisa Baik, Postdoctoral researcher with the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale University
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
Extra: Why We Believe In Conspiracy Theories
Guest: Dr Daniel Jolley, Assistant Professor in Social Psychology at the University of Nottingham
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
Extra: Using Virtual Reality To Conquer Fear of Public Speaking
Guest: Dr Chris MacDonald, Univeristy of Cambridge
The Great Whale Pee Funnel
Guests:Dr Laura HayesDr Jessamyn FairfieldJoe Roman, Biologist at the University of Vermont
Octopuses’ Weird Mating
Guest: Dr Wen-Sung Chung
When Do We Become Conscious?
Guests:Dr Laura HayesDr Ruth FreemanDr Lorina Naci
Extra: Rare Blood Plasma
Guest: Dr Andrew Godfrey, Medical & Scientific Director of the Irish Blood Transfusion Service
The Future of Space Food
Guests: Jessamyn FairfieldTara ShineDr Joshua Pearce
Extra: The Advancement of AI
Guest: Dr Brian MacNamee, UCD
Should we reintroduce wolves to Ireland?
Guests: Dr Jonny Hanson QUBDr Annie CurtisDr Shane Bergin
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.
Understanding More About the Sun & The Science of Risk
Guests:Dr Laura Hayes, Solar Physicist.Don Ross, Professor of Philosophy and Behavioural Economist.
Extra: Solving Obesity
Guest: Professor Giles Yeo
The Migration Journey for ‘Animal Athletes’
Guests: Dr Lucy HawkesDr Ruth FreemanDr Laura Dungan
Extra: Meteorite Hunting
Guest: Joshua Howgego, author of 'The Meteorite Hunters'
Toxic Semen in Mosquitoes
Guests:Dr Ruth Freeman.Dr Laura Dungan.Associate Professor in Applied BiosSciences at Macquarie University, Maciej Maselko.
Futureproof Extra: Bioprinted Hearts
Guest: Professor Andrew Daly, Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Galway.
When Mega-Icebergs Melt
Guest: Prof Geraint Tarling of the British Antarctic Survey.Also Newsround with Shane Bergin and Ruth Freeman.
Extra: What is AMOC? And Why is it Changing?
Guest: Dr Gerard McCarthy, Oceanographer with ICARUS Climate Research Centre and Department of Geography.
How New Memories Are Formed
Guest: Antonio Fernando Ruiz, Assistant Professor and Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences at Cornell University.
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.
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.
Extra: The Wallace Line
Guest: Ian McFadden, Lecturer in Computational Ecology, Queen Mary University of London
What Trees Can Tell Us
Guest: Tristan Gooley, author of 'How to Read a Tree'
Extra: Bird Flu Epidemic in American Cattle
Guest: Maryn McKenna, Author and Journalist.
What connects cancer & Alzheimer's disease?
Guest: Erin Abner, Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health at the University of Kentucky.
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.
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.
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.
Extra: Mushroom Robots
Rob Shepherd - Professor in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University @CornellMAE @Cornell.
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.
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.
Can death be abolished?
Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston - Neuroscientist and author of The Future Loves You: How and Why We Should Abolish Death @ariel_zj.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Extra: Mapping the brain of a fly
Guest: Tamara Boto - Assistant Professor of Physiology in Trinity College Dublin @TamaraBoto @TCDPhysiology @tcddublin
The future of law enforcement
Guest: Martin Mullins - Director of Transgero and Professor of Risk Manangement at the University of Limerick @mjamullins @transgero @UL