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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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Jul 11, 2026

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Episodes

Storm Chasing: The Science of Tornadoes 04.08.2024

Robin Tanamachi - Associate Professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at Purdue University, joined Jonathan on the show

Moon Landing 55th Anniversary Special 26.07.2024

This week, Jonathan was joined by Oliver Morton, Senior Editor at The Economist and author of The Moon: A History For The Future and by Sarah T. Stewart, Planetary Scientist and Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the UC Davis.

Extra: Do I know you? 23.07.2024

Sadie Dingfelder - Author of Do I Know You?: A Faceblind Reporter’s Journey into the Science of Sight, Memory, and Imagination

Why do some people always get lost? 21.07.2024

Nora Newcombe - Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Temple University @NoraNewcombe

Extra: Turbulence 16.07.2024

Ivan Marusic is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Melbourne School of Engineering @engunimelb @unimelb

What can we learn from whale ear wax? 14.07.2024

Stephen J. Trumble - Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at Baylor University & Affiliate Professor in the Institute of Marine Science at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks @ stephenjtrumble Michael Brecht - Professor for 'Systems Neurobiology and Neural Computation' at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience at Humboldt-University, Berlin @bccn_berlin @HumboldtUni @N...

Extra: Mapping the Cosmos 09.07.2024

Dr Seshadri Nadathur, a co-author of the work and senior research fellow at the University of Portsmouth’s Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation @SeshNadathur @UoPCosmology

The Evolution of Flight & Digital Babies 07.07.2024

Lev Parikian - Conducter & Author of Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing @LevParikian & Professor Ines Thiele - Principal Investigator of the Molecular Systems Physiology group at University of Galway and Principal Investigator with APC Microbiome Ireland @ines_thiele @uniofgalway

Extra: You're All Talk, What Our Accents Say About Us 02.07.2024

Rob Drummond - Professor of Sociolinguistics at Manchester Metropolitan University and author of You’re All Talk: why we are what we speak

The High Seas 30.06.2024

Olive Heffernan - Science Journalist and Author of The High Seas: Ambition, Power and Greed on the Unclaimed Ocean @O_Heffernan

Extra: The Swiftquake Comes to Dublin! 25.06.2024

Eleanor Dunn - PhD Researcher at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies @DIAS_Dublin

How the things you see could alter how long you live! 23.06.2024

Guest: Christi Gendron - Research Assistant Professor in Molecular & Integrative Physiology at The University of Michigan.

Extra: The Evolutionary Effects of Endurance Hunting 18.06.2024

Eugene Morin - Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Trent University @TrentUResearch @TrentUniversity

Time Dilation & The Practical Challenges of Interstellar Travel 16.06.2024

Les Johnson - Author & Space Technologist

Gold: Faces 06.06.2024

In this special episode of Futureproof we look at Face Blindness and super recognition with Professor Fiona Newell - Professor of Experimental Psychology at the Trinity Institiute of Neurosciences and Meike Ramon - Cognitive neuroscientist and Assistant Professor at the University of Fribourg

Extra: Carbon Capture 04.06.2024

Dr John Breen - Chief Technology Officer of NEG8 Carbon @NEG8Carbon

How the way we walk can tell us how healthy we are! 02.06.2024

Guests this week: Dr Aidan Boran - Founder/CEO at Digital Gait Labs @aidan_boran  &  Professor Seán Kennelly - Consultant Geriatrician and Director of the Institute of Memory & Cognition at Tallaght University Hospital (TUH) @SPKennelly @TUH_Tallaght

Extra: Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation 28.05.2024

George Musser - Contributing editor for Scientific American magazine and author of Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation: Why Physicists Are Studying Human Consciousness and AI to Unravel the Mysteries of the Universe

Exoplanet Weather 26.05.2024

Professor Johanna Vos - Assistant Professor in the School of Physics at Trinity College

Extra: How Do We Divide Geological Time? 21.05.2024

Dr. Siobhan Power - Geologist with the Geological Survey Ireland

The Video Game that Aids Stroke Recovery 19.05.2024

John Krakauer - Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, and Director of the Center for the Study of Motor Learning and Brain Repair at Johns Hopkins

Extra: Could Europa Clipper Detect Life on Jupiter's Moon? 14.05.2024

Fabian Klenner is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Washington

The Evolution of Eggs! 12.05.2024

Jules Howard - Zoological Correspondent and Author of Infinite Life: A Revolutionary Story of Eggs, Evolution and Life on Earth

Extra: Ant Supercolonies 08.05.2024

John Whitfield is a Science journalist and Author

Space Elevators 05.05.2024

Professor Arun Misra is a Thomas Workman Emeritus Professor in Mechanical Engineering at McGill University.

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