Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

When we eat it may not occur to us how important chewing is. Food impaction is when a morsel of food is blocking the oesophagus or needs to be taken out because it hasn't been broken down correctly via chewing. Jonathan speaks with a gastroenterologist about why chewing is both necessary and important. Gastroenterologists are doctors who are trained to diagnose and treat problems in your gastroint...

Multiple sclerosis is a chronic disease affecting the central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord). MS occurs when the immune system attacks nerve fibers and myelin sheathing (a fatty substance which surrounds/insulates healthy nerve fibers) in the brain and spinal cord. A new paper has been published that seems to have discovered the cause of Multiple Sclerosis. This paper could pave the wa...

Futureproof Extra: How Do We Navigate?

Where Are All The Irish Dinosaurs?

Futureproof Extra: A Natural History of the Future

What Life In Space Teaches Us About Life On Earth

Now, science is many things but at its core, it is fundamentally human - to strive to understand, to seek out; and to know. And while we strive to do this while adhering to strict codes of conduct & ethical boundaries. At least we do now anyway. But in the field of psychology In the middle of the 20th century however, all bets were off.   Gina Perry, writer, science historian and author of ‘Be...

Futureproof Extra: The Robbers Cave Experiment

he Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us

Futureproof Extra: Reading Monkey Brains with AI

Why Do We Kiss?

Futureproof Extra: Resignation Syndrome & Other Mysterious Illnesses

FutureProof Gold: The Pentagon's Brain

How Military Funding Shapes What We Know About The Oceans

Michael Grothaus Novelist, Journalist and Author of ‘Trust No One: Inside the World of Deepfakes’ joined Jonathan McCrea to discuss his book and the scary reality of deepfakes currently. Grothaus examines cases that demonstrate the threats presented by morally dubious creators. From the personal to political, the impact of deep fakes is considered carefully by Grothaus, both on the victims and on...

The Science of Sound with Dr. Nina Kraus

Can We Make Synthetic Blood?

On the program this week Jonathan chats to world-renowned Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson about his new book as well as all things cosmos related. This week for the Newsround Jonathan McCrea was joined by Dr Fergus McAuliffe and  scientist Jessamyn Fairfield. They discussed a recent incident in which the US has condemned a Russian anti-satellite test this week which forced crew members on #ISS...

Futureproof Extra: The Invisible Universe

Every time you get behind the wheel of the car you will have to deal with countless driving decisions that get you safely from A to B, and it could be argued that those decisions amount to what are essentially life-or-death considerations. But self-driving cars might soon have to make those kinds of judgements and settling on a universal moral code for the AI that drives them could be a problem. ...

In your news feed or the newspapers or on television, there is probably a recent story on the explosion of some kind of improvised explosive device (IED). For us here in Ireland, those occurrences are nowadays quite rare. However, there are many countries where explosives are a regular occurrence and every day there are men and women who put themselves in harms way in order to deactivate these dev...

Futureproof Extra: Fighting Infectious Diseases

Life As We Made It with Beth Shapiro