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Extra: Why can’t we figure out static electricity? 14.04.2026 18:26
Guest: Scott Waitukaitis, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria in Klosterneuburg
The Dawn of Writing 12.04.2026 34:36
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. Ruth Freeman from Science Foundation Ireland Shane Bergin, Physicist & Assistant Professor in Science Education at UCD
Extra: Why Are We Going Back To The Moon? 07.04.2026 16:54
Guest: Dallas Campbell, BBC Space Presenter and author of ‘Space Journal: The Art and Science of Cosmic Exploration’
Building a Robotic Oesophagus 05.04.2026 33:47
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
Why should we avoid creating contrails? 29.03.2026 31:36
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 Dublin Dr Shelley Brady, Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics at DCU
Extra: Movies reconstructed from mouse brain activity 24.03.2026 15:41
Guest: Dr Joel Bauer, Research Fellow at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour at UCL
What happens during a hallucination? 22.03.2026 36:44
Guests: Dr Anna Georgiades, Lecturer in Early Intervention in Psychosis at King's College London Dr Ruth Freeman Dr John Regan
Extra: The Origins of Our Musical Ability 17.03.2026 15:55
Guest: Dr Ani Patel, Tufts University, Massachusetts
How The Brain Can Recover Forgotten Memories 15.03.2026 33:55
Guests: Dr Benjamin J. Griffiths, University of Nottingham Dr Ruth Freeman, Research Ireland Dr Tara Shine, Environmental Scientist
Extra: Why animals see the world at different speeds 10.03.2026 13:25
Guest: Dr Kevin Healy, Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Galway
What you don’t know about respiration 08.03.2026 38:15
Guests: New York Times bestselling author and Science Journalist James Nestor Dr Ruth Freeman Dr Lara Dungan
Extra: What influences your willingness to be helpful towards strangers? 03.03.2026 18:25
Guest: Dr Todd Vogel, Research Fellow in Psychology at the University of Birmingham
Clothes with health tracking technology 01.03.2026 32:40
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 Professor Matthew Campbell, Head of Department at the Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin
Extra: What drives the power of our tides and waves? 24.02.2026 14:11
Guest: Prof Iris Möller, Coastal Geomorphologist and Chair of the Geography Department at Trinity College Dublin
Predicting Scorpion Strikes 22.02.2026 35:53
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 University of Galway Dr Laura Hayes, Research Fellow at the School of Cosmic Physics at DIAS
Extra: Does the Earth’s core hide vast hydrogen reservoirs? 17.02.2026 15:57
Guest: With Prof Jon Wade , Associate Professor of Planetary Materials, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford
Making Life with Artificial Biological Intelligence 15.02.2026 34:30
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 of Artificial Biological Intelligence’
Extra: Solar Maximum and the Northern lights explained 10.02.2026 14:49
Guest: Dr Alexandra Ruth Fogg, Postdoctoral Fellow in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
What is Aphantasia? Why some brains can’t visualize 08.02.2026 35:36
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
Extra: What Is Childhood Dementia? 03.02.2026 11:40
Guest: Prof Matthew Campbell, Head of the Genetics Department and Chair of Neurovascular Genetics at Trinity College Dublin
Building a womb lining in the lab 01.02.2026 36:20
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
Extra: Turning muscle signals into speech 27.01.2026 14:23
Guest: Professor Luigi Occhipinti, Research Professor of Smart Electronics, Biosystems and AI, at Cambridge University
Why some wounds won’t heal 25.01.2026 31:04
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 Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics Dr John Regan, Research Fellow in the Department of Theoretical Physics at Maynooth University
Extra: What if stopping Alzheimer’s means targeting one gene? 20.01.2026 13:51
Guest: Dr Dylan Williams, Principal Research Fellow in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology at UCL
Tackling Space Debris 18.01.2026 31:42
Guests: Dr Penelope Wozniakiewicz, Senior Lecturer in Space Science at the University of Kent Dr Shane Bergin Dr John Regan
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