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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. Listen and subscribe to Futureproof with Johnathan McCrea on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App. You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'

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Dublin, Ireland

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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. Listen and subscribe to Futureproof with Johnathan McCrea on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App. You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'

Language:

English

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Newstalk HQ Marconi House Digges Lane Dublin 2 1890 453106


Episodes

The Science of Menstruation

3/27/2024
Dr. Jennifer Gunter is a Gynaecologist & author of Blood: The Science, Medicine and Mythology of Menstruation

Duration:00:15:48

Eat, Poop, Die

3/24/2024
Joe Roman - Conservation biologist and marine ecologist at the University of Vermont and Author of Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World

Duration:00:36:09

Extra: Enhancing Daylight

3/19/2024
Jonathan speaks with Professor Brian Norton from the Tyndall National Institute

Duration:00:14:15

The Nocebo Effect

3/17/2024
Charlotte Blease is Associate Professor in the Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Sweden and co-author of The Nocebo Effect: When Words Make You Sick

Duration:00:35:21

Extra: The Ice Cube Neutrino Observatory

3/12/2024
Francis Halzen is Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Principle Investigator at the Ice Cube Neutrino Observatory

Duration:00:15:03

Who Owns The Moon?

3/10/2024
Professor AC Grayling is a Philosopher and Author of Who Owns the Moon?: In Defence of Humanity’s Common Interests in Space

Duration:00:37:20

Extra: Brain Fog

3/5/2024
It’s almost exactly 4 years since the Covid 19 pandemic came to these shores and although thankfully the pandemic is over, there is still a lot to learn about the disease and its after effects. Long Covid is particularly perplexing but Irish scientists from the FutureNeuro Centre may have shed some light on one specific aspect of it; Brain Fog So what exactly is brain fog and how does a Covid infection bring it about? Dr. Matthew Campbell is a Professor in Trinity’s School of Genetics and Microbiology and Principal Investigator at the FutureNeuro Centre

Duration:00:15:53

Why We Humans Can Get Used To Just About Anything

3/3/2024
Jonathan speaks to Cass Sunstein - Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard and Co-Author of "Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There" about habituation and his new book.

Duration:00:42:17

Futureproof Extra: A New Habitat in the Pacific Garbage Patch

2/27/2024
Jonathan is joined by Jim Carlton - Professor of Marine Sciences, Emeritus, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Duration:00:14:34

Why Do Humans Grow Up So Slowly?

2/26/2024
Jonathan is joined by Brenna Hassett - Lecturer in forensic osteology and archaeology at the University of Central Lancashire and author of Growing Up Human

Duration:00:44:53

Documentary Special: Scorched Earth

2/18/2024
In this special edition of Futureproof, Jonathan joins researchers from DIAS as they travel to a volcano on the Galapagos Islands. Funded by Coimisiún na Meán with the TV licence fee. Also funded by the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies.

Duration:00:43:24

Extra: Managing Stress Via The Gut

2/13/2024
Jonathan speaks to Professor John Cryan from UCC

Duration:00:16:08

Could We Delay The Menopause?

2/12/2024
Scientists at Yale think freezing ovarian tissue at a young age could help us to postpone or event prevent the onset of menopause altogether. Jonathan speaks to Dr Kutluk Oktay, Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, and Director of the Laboratory of Fertility Preservation and Molecular Reproductive Biology at the Yale School of Medicine.

Duration:00:35:25

Futureproof Extra: The origins of Guinness yeast

2/6/2024
Researchers from Diageo have discovered that the yeast used to make Guinness is genetically different from any other Irish beer. Joining Jonathan to discuss this is Daniel Kerruish, Group Microbiologist at Diageo.

Duration:00:12:09

How does a brain implant affect your mind?

2/4/2024
This week Elon Musk announced his Neuralink company has implanted a wireless brain chip into a human for the first time. But how significant is this step and how exactly does a brain implant affect the mind? Joining Jonathan to discuss this is Dr. Manus Biggs, Associate Professor at the University of Galway and Investigator with Curám, the SFI research centre for medical devices. Also joining Jonathan for this week's installment of Newsround is Dr. Ruth Freeman from Science Foundation Ireland & Laura Healy, Sustainable Food Production Scientist.

Duration:00:37:06

Futureproof Extra: What is the Coriolis Effect?

1/30/2024
As we’ve discussed before on Futureproof, nature has some strange but very cool patterns - one such pattern is the Coriolis Effect. Joining Jonathan to explain this is Dr. Conor Sweeney, Lecturer in Applied and Computational Mathematics in the School of Mathematical Sciences at UCD; Deputy Director of the UCD Earth Institute; and President of the Irish Meteorological Society.

Duration:00:13:55

How does the human eye see so many colours?

1/28/2024
Scientists in Maryland in the United States are exploring what a lab-grown retina can tell us about how we can see millions of colours. Joining Jonathan to explain more about the research is Robert J. Johnston Jr. Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at Johns Hopkins University. Also joining Jonathan for this week's Newsround is Dr. Susan Kelleher, School of Chemical Sciences, DCU & Dr Fergus McAuliffe, Communications and Engagement Manager, iCRAG.

Duration:00:37:24

Futureproof Extra: How does our skin age?

1/23/2024
As we grow older, we experience a multitude of changes - both emotionally and physically - and while those changes can be challenging at times, it is inevitable. One way we see the process of ageing is right in front of us with the skin on our faces, our hands, and the rest of our body - in many ways telling the story of our lives. But what is actually happening as our skin continues to age throughout our lives. Joining Jonathan to discuss this is consultant dermatologist, Professor Caitriona Ryan.

Duration:00:13:30

The science of quantum teleportation

1/21/2024
That old maxim of “knowledge is power” is as true today as it was when Francis Bacon first coined the term back in the late 1500s; and while that is itself still true, the speed at which we send and receive knowledge and information can be just as powerful. We have been witnesses to this through the years as we laid Atlantic telegraph cables in the 1860s, sent satellites into space, and now we may stand again on the precipice of a new age of rapid communication with groundbreaking research into “teleportation”. Joining Jonathan to discuss is Prof Andrew Forbes from the School of Physics at Wits University in South Africa. Also joining us for this week's installment of Newsround is Lianne Shanley, PhD Researcher from the School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity College Dublin & Dr. Shane Bergin, Assistant Professor in Science Education, UCD.

Duration:00:33:10

Futureproof Extra: The vest that could help predict sudden cardiac death

1/16/2024
Researchers from University College London have developed an electrocardiographic imaging (ECGI) vest that might help identify individuals at a higher risk of sudden cardiac death. Joining Jonathan to explain how it works is Gaby Captur, Consultant cardiologist in Inherited Heart Muscle Conditions at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust & Senior lecturer at the UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science.

Duration:00:16:25