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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 adding the Newstalk skill and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'.

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    Extra: How we exploit artificial intelligence

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

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    Guests:Malcolm Dando, Emeritus Professor at the School of Social Sciences at the University of BradfordDr Shelley Brady of DCUDr Shane Bergin of UCD

    Extra: The one thing you need to know about electricity

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

    Treatment-resistant depression

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    Guests:Professor Valerie Voon, Professor of Neuropsychiatry and Neuromodulation at the University of CambridgeDr Jessamyn Fairfield of the School of Natural Sciences at the University of GalwayDr Shane Bergin, Physicist at UCD

    Extra: The Age of Rock

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    Guest: Dr Anjana Khatwa, earth scientist and author of ‘The Whispers of Rock – Stories from the Earth'

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    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2025 41:04


    Guests:Kate Adamala, Associate Professor of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development at the University of MinnesotaImmunologist Dr Lara DunganDr John Regan, Department of Theoretical Physics at Maynooth University

    Extra: How chimps rationally revise their beliefs & face blindness

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2025 35:17


    Guests:Dr Emily Sanford, Postdoctoral Researcher in Psychology at the University of California BerkeleyFiona Newell, Professor of Experimental Psychology at the Trinity Institute of NeurosciencesMeike Ramon, Cognitive Neuroscientist and Assistant Professor at the University of Fribourg

    Recovering Lost Memories

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2025 35:04


    Guests:Prof Jane Aspell, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Head of the Self and Body Lab at Anglia Ruskin UniversityDr Ruth Freeman of Research IrelandDr Shelley Brady, DCU

    Extra: How Close Are We To Lab-Grown Teeth?

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2025 18:05


    Guest: Ana Angelova Volponi of King's College London

    Unusual Metamorphoses

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2025 28:14


    Guests:Author Oren HarmanShane Bergin & Susan Kelleher

    Extra: The Origin of Dark Energy

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2025 10:25


    Guest: Prof Kate Maguire, Professor In Astrophysics at Trinity College Dublin

    Recovering fingerprints from ammunition for forensics

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2025 30:42


    Guests:Dr Colm McKeever, Assistant Lecturer and Researcher in Analytical Chemistry, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Biotechnology, at TUSDr Shelley Brady, DCUDr Laura Hayes, DIAS

    Extra: How to verify supplement quality

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2025 16:15


    Guest: Professor John Nolan

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    Extra: The Future of Solar Energy

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    Guest: Paul Deane, Clean Energy Futures Lecturer at UCC

    The Harms of Over-Diagnosis

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    Extra: Huntington's disease slowed with gene therapy

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    Guest: Dr Lauren Byrne, Principal Investigator at the Huntington's Disease Centre at UCL

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    Guest: Prof Kelly Morrison, Professor of Experimental Physics at Loughborough University

    The creation of artificial cartilage

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2025 37:50


    Guests:Prof Oren A. Scherman, Professor of Supramolecular & Polymer Chemistry, and Director of the Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis at the University of CambridgeDr John ReganDr Lara Dungan

    Extra: Dinosaur eggs directly dated for the first time

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    Guest: Professor Maria McNamara, Professor of Palaeontology at University College Cork

    "Clearest sign" of life on Mars

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    Guests:Professor Sanjeev Gupta, Professor of Earth Science at Imperial College LondonDr Susan Kelleher of DCUDr Shane Bergin of UCD

    Extra: Heart attacks may be triggered by infections

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    Guest: Prof Claudia Monaco, Professor of Cardiovascular Inflammation at the University of Oxford

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    Guests:Prof Redmond O'Connell, Professor in Decision Neuroscience at Trinity College DublinDr Ruth Freeman of Research IrelandDr Shane Bergin of UCD

    Extra: Misophonia Rehabilitation

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    Guest: Olwyn Morris, Audiologist and clinic owner of Medico Audiology

    How Humans Came to Walk Upright

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    Guests:Dr Terence D. Capellini, Chair of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard UniversityDr Lara Dungan, ImmunologistDr Shane Bergin of UCD

    Extra: What is Weaver Syndrome?

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    Guest: Adrian Bracken, Professor of Chromatin Biology at the Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin

    Creating Toothpaste Made From Hair

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    Guests:Dr Sherif Elsharkawy, Senior Clinical Lecturer in Prosthodontics, at the Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences at King's College LondonDr Shelley Brady of DCUProfessor Oran Kennedy of the RCSI

    Extra: Eirsat-1 and The Future of Irish Satellites

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 26, 2025 15:03


    With Dr David McKeown, Assistant Professor at the UCD Centre for Space Research.

    Attacking Cancer: CAR T-Cell Therapy

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    With Dr Larry Bacon, Consultant Haematologist from St James's Hospital, and Dr Nicola Gardiner, Chief Medical Scientist at the Cryobiology Laboratory Stem Cell Facility at St James's.Newsround with Dr Ruth Freeman from Research Ireland and science communicator Fergus McAuliffe.

    Extra: Is slowing down ageing possible?

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2025 12:10


    Guest: Eamonn Mallon, Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Leicester

    The science behind memory distortion

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2025 38:17


    Guests:Ciara Greene, Associate Professor in the School of Psychology at UCD, where she heads up the Attention and Memory LaboratoryDr Lara Dungan, ImmunologistDr Tara Shine of Change By Degrees

    Extra: Advances In Ophthalmic Medicine and Eyecare

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2025 11:15


    Guest: Patrick Condon, former Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at University Hospital Waterford and author of ‘Eye Healthcare – 90 Years of Progress'

    Can brain stimulation cure addiction?

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2025 38:00


    Guests:Yale Neuroscientist Vaughn SteeleDr Shane Bergin, UCDSciene Writer Dr Claire O'Connell

    Extra: Why is our Earth spinning faster?

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2025 14:17


    Guest: Robin Edwards, TCD

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    Guests:Holly CunninghamScience Communicator Eoin MurphySusan Kelleher, DCU

    Extra: The role of mitochondria in why we need sleep

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2025 13:11


    Guest: Gero Miesenböck of Oxford University

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    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2025 32:44


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    Guest: Professor Lorenzo Fabrizi, Professor of Developmental Systems Neuroscience at University College London

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    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2025 14:18


    Guest: Dr Simon Piggott, Clinical Research Fellow with the Diabetes Complications Research Centre at the Conway Institute, UCD

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