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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. CONVERSATION THAT COUNTS | Ireland’s national independent talk station for news, sport, analysis and entertainment Listen to Newstalk at  http://newstalk.com/listenlive  | Download the GoLoud app now, the new home for Newstalk

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Latest episode

Jul 11, 2026

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Episodes

Extra: How to verify supplement quality 21.10.2025

Guest: Professor John Nolan

Why do pregnant women get morning sickness? 19.10.2025

Guests: Professor Molly Fox of UCLA Laura Hayes Shane Bergin

Extra: The Future of Solar Energy 14.10.2025

Guest: Paul Deane, Clean Energy Futures Lecturer at UCC

The Harms of Over-Diagnosis 12.10.2025

Guests: Neurologist Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan Shelley Brady, DCU Shane Bergin, UCD

Extra: Huntington’s disease slowed with gene therapy 07.10.2025

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

Rebuilding Our Body With Regenerative Medicine 05.10.2025

Guests: Mary Roach, Science Author Dr Laura Hayes, DIAS Dr Jessamyn Fairfield, University of Galway

Extra: Making the world's smallest violin 30.09.2025

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

The creation of artificial cartilage 28.09.2025

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

Extra: Dinosaur eggs directly dated for the first time 23.09.2025

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

"Clearest sign" of life on Mars 21.09.2025

Guests: Professor Sanjeev Gupta, Professor of Earth Science at Imperial College London Dr Susan Kelleher of DCU Dr Shane Bergin of UCD

Extra: Heart attacks may be triggered by infections 16.09.2025

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

Dublin head scanner is 'breakthrough' in brain research 14.09.2025

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

Extra: Misophonia Rehabilitation 09.09.2025

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

How Humans Came to Walk Upright 07.09.2025

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

Extra: What is Weaver Syndrome? 02.09.2025

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

Creating Toothpaste Made From Hair 31.08.2025

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

Extra: Eirsat-1 and The Future of Irish Satellites 26.08.2025

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

Attacking Cancer: CAR T-Cell Therapy 26.08.2025

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? 19.08.2025

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

The science behind memory distortion 17.08.2025

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

Extra: Advances In Ophthalmic Medicine and Eyecare 12.08.2025

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? 11.08.2025

Guests: Yale Neuroscientist Vaughn Steele Dr Shane Bergin, UCD Sciene Writer Dr Claire O'Connell

Extra: Why is our Earth spinning faster? 05.08.2025

Guest: Robin Edwards, TCD

Could colour be the answer to reviving marine life? 03.08.2025

Guests: Holly Cunningham Science Communicator Eoin Murphy Susan Kelleher, DCU

Extra: The role of mitochondria in why we need sleep 29.07.2025

Guest: Gero Miesenböck of Oxford University

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