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Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

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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.

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  1. Early flavour memories may shape picky eaters

    · 35 min

    Guests: • Professor Nadja Reissland of Science Foundation Ireland • Dr Ruth Freeman of Research Ireland • Dr Fergus McAuliffe of Trinity College Dublin

  2. Extra: Bodyoids

    · 14 min

    Guest: Hank Greely, Professor of Law and Expert in Bioethics at Stanford University

  3. What is ‘Forensic Botany’?

    · 41 min

    Guests: • Christopher Hardy, Forensic Botanist and Biology Professor at Millersville University • Laura Hayes, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies • Tara Shine, Environmental Scientist

  4. Extra: The Power of Plankton

    · 20 min

    Guest: Vincent Doumeizel, Senior Adviser on the oceans to the United Nations Global Compact and author of ‘The Power of Plankton: How Plankton Made Life On Earth Possible and Why It’s Key To Our Future’.

  5. The Smell of the Past

    · 39 min

    Guests: • Dr. Barbara Huber, Archaeochemist at the at the University of Tubingen in Germany • Jessamyn Fairfield from NUI Galway • John Regan from Maynooth University

  6. Extra: AI Improving Medicine

    · 18 min

    Guest: Charlotte Blease, Associate Professor in the Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Sweden and Author of ‘Dr Bot: Why Doctors Can Fail Us – and How AI Could Save Lives’.

  7. Building a Warp Drive

    · 32 min

    Guests: • Dr. Katy Clough, Astrophysicist at Queen Mary University of London • Annie Curtis Body Research Lecturer in RCSI • Shane Bergin, Physicist & Assistant Prof in Science Education at UCD

  8. Extra: How apples are engineered

    · 17 min

    Guest: Kate Evans, Professor in the Department of Horticulture at Washington State University

  9. Will AI replace scientists?

    · 38 min

    Guests: • Jeff Clune, CIFAR AI chair at the Victor Institute and Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada • Jessamyn Fairfield from NUI Galway • Matthew Campbell…

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

    · 18 min

    Guest: Scott Waitukaitis, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria in Klosterneuburg

  11. The Dawn of Writing

    · 35 min

    Guests: • Genevieve Von Petzinger, Paleoanthropologist and Rock Art Researcher and Project Director of the LIAACAR Project (The Living, Intelligent Archive of Ancient Culture, Art and Relational Archeology) • Dr.…

  12. Extra: Why Are We Going Back To The Moon?

    · 17 min

    Guest: Dallas Campbell, BBC Space Presenter and author of ‘Space Journal: The Art and Science of Cosmic Exploration’

  13. Building a Robotic Oesophagus

    · 34 min

    Guests: • Dr Eoin O'Cearbhaill, Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering at University College Dublin • Dr Shane Bergin, Physicist at UCD • Dr Lara Dungan, Immunologist and Medic

  14. Why should we avoid creating contrails?

    · 32 min

    Guests: • Dr Jessie Smith, Research Associate in Sustainable Aviation at the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge • Dr Fergus McAuliffe, Head of Research Engagement and Impact at Trinity College…

  15. Extra: Movies reconstructed from mouse brain activity

    · 16 min

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

  16. What happens during a hallucination?

    · 37 min

    Guests: • Dr Anna Georgiades, Lecturer in Early Intervention in Psychosis at King's College London • Dr Ruth Freeman • Dr John Regan

  17. Extra: The Origins of Our Musical Ability

    · 16 min

    Guest: Dr Ani Patel, Tufts University, Massachusetts

  18. How The Brain Can Recover Forgotten Memories

    · 34 min

    Guests: • Dr Benjamin J. Griffiths, University of Nottingham • Dr Ruth Freeman, Research Ireland • Dr Tara Shine, Environmental Scientist

  19. Extra: Why animals see the world at different speeds

    · 13 min

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

  20. What you don’t know about respiration

    · 38 min

    Guests: • New York Times bestselling author and Science Journalist James Nestor • Dr Ruth Freeman • Dr Lara Dungan

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

    · 18 min

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

  22. Clothes with health tracking technology

    · 33 min

    Guests: • Professor Steve Beeby, Chair in Emerging Technologies and Director of the Centre for Flexible Electronics and E-Textiles at the University of Southampton • Dr Tara Shine, Environemental Scientist •…

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

    · 14 min

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

  24. Predicting Scorpion Strikes

    · 36 min

    Guests: • Dr Michel Dugon, Assistant Professor in Zoology and Principal Investigator of the Venom Systems Lab at the University of Galway • Dr Jessamyn Fairfield, Lecturer in the School of Natural Sciences at the…

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

    · 16 min

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

  26. Making Life with Artificial Biological Intelligence

    · 35 min

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

  27. Extra: Solar Maximum and the Northern lights explained

    · 15 min

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

  28. What is Aphantasia? Why some brains can’t visualize

    · 36 min

    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

  29. Extra: What Is Childhood Dementia?

    · 12 min

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

  30. Building a womb lining in the lab

    · 36 min

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

  31. Extra: Turning muscle signals into speech

    · 14 min

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

  32. Why some wounds won’t heal

    · 31 min

    Guests: • Professor Kimberly Kline, Professor in Microbiology and Molecular Medicine at The University of Geneva and Visiting Scholar at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore • Dr Shelley Brady, DCU’s Insight…

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

    · 14 min

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

  34. Tackling Space Debris

    · 32 min

    Guests: • Dr Penelope Wozniakiewicz, Senior Lecturer in Space Science at the University of Kent • Dr Shane Bergin • Dr John Regan

  35. Extra: What exactly is DNA?

    · 13 min

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

  36. How blood vessels boost lab-grown mini-brains

    · 32 min

    Guests: • Dr Mihai Lomora, Scientist with CÚRAM, the Research Ireland Centre for Medical Devices based at the University of Galway • Dr Jessamyn Fairfield from the School of Natural Sciences at the University of…

  37. Extra: Earth’s Early Wildfires

    · 12 min

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

  38. Sustaining human life on the Moon and Mars

    · 15 min

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

  39. The Surprising Flaws of Evolution

    · 22 min

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

  40. Extra: CAR T-Cell Therapy (Best of)

    · 20 min

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

  41. Best of Futureproof: Creating Dark Matter, Curing Addiction

    · 34 min

    Guests: • Dr John Regan, Maynooth University • Yale Neuroscientist Vaughn Steele

  42. Extra: Obtaining Fingerprints from Ammunition (Best of)

    · 14 min

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

  43. Best of Futureproof: Mirror Life & The Science of Embalming

    · 45 min

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

  44. Extra: Is butt breathing achievable?

    · 15 min

    Guest: Prof John Laffey, Professor of Anaesthesia Intensive Care Medicine at the School of Medicine of the University of Galway and a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at Galway University Hospitals.

  45. The winter hibernation gene in animals

    · 33 min

    Guests: • Professor Tyler Stevenson, Head of Physiology, Ageing & Welfare at the University of Glasgow • Dr Ruth Freeman of Research Ireland • Dr Fergus McAuliffe, Head of Research Engagement and Impact at…

  46. Extra: Vitamin D is linked to BMI?

    · 14 min

    Guest: Prof Lena Zgaga, Professor in Epidemiology at the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the School of Health in Trinity

  47. Can we witness stars form planets?

    · 34 min

    Guests: • Dr Emma Whelan, Department of Experimental Physics, Maynooth University • Dr Tara Shine, Change by Degrees • Dr Ruth Freeman, Research Ireland

  48. Extra: How we exploit artificial intelligence

    · 15 min

    Guest: Taha Yasseri, Director of the Joint Centre for Sociology of Humans and Machines at Trinity College Dublin

  49. Is the human mind the next frontier in warfare?

    · 29 min

    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

  50. Extra: The one thing you need to know about electricity

    · 20 min

    Guest: Marcus Chown, Science Writer and author of ‘The One Thing You Need to Know’

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