Extra: Chris Hadfield on the importance of space exploration
Guest: Colonel Chris Hadfield, retired Royal Canadian Air Force Colonel, Test Pilot, and CSA Astronaut
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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 subscrib...
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20 of 506 episodesMeeting the Astronauts of Artemis II
Guests; Artemis II Astronauts Victor Glover and Jeremy Hansen Matthew Campbell, Professor of Genetics at TCD Ciara Murphy, Senior Lecturer i...
Extra: 3D Printing
Guest: Michael Golden, Education and Public Engagement Manager at I-Form
The History of Linking Computers with Human Brains
Jonathan is joined by Phil Smith broadcaster and science communicator and Dr Shane Bergin Physicist and associate professor in science educa...
Extra: The Hidden Power of Leaves
Guest: Jonathan Silvertown - Professor of Evolutionary Ecology at the University of Edinburgh and author of Nature’s Magicians: The Hidden P...
What is ancient smallpox doing in Trinity?
Guests: Bruno Romero González PhD student, Trinity College Dublin Dr.Ruth Freeman from Research Ireland Fergus McAuliffe - Head of Research...
Futureproof Gold: Chances
We tend to glean a lot of meaning from the random occurrences in our lives, it can give us a sense of place in a chaotic and frightening wor...
Extra: A Computer Made From DNA
Guest: Damien Woods, Professor of Computer Science in the Hamilton Institute at Maynooth University
Symbiosis: Collaboration in Nature
Guests: Rowan Hooper, author of ‘Togetherness: Symbiosis and the Hidden Story of Life’s Greatest Collaborations’ Matthew Campbell, Professor...
Extra: CMLase - The Enzyme That Could Reverse Ageing
Guest: Aaron Cravens, Founder and Chief executive of Revel Pharmaceuticals
Why are killer whales ramming yachts?
Guests: Dr. Luke Rendell, Biologist at Sean Mammal Research Unit in the University of St. Andrews Matthew Campbell, Professor of Genetics at...
Extra: Did Life Start Twice On Earth?
Guest: Bill Martin - Evolutionary Biologist and Head of the Institute of Molecular Evolution at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf
Could ozempic cure addiction?
Guests: Philip Smyth, Broadcaster and Science Communicator Dr. Laura Hayes, Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies Prof. Paul Kenny, Nash Fami...
Extra: Behind The Scenes of The Lost Bridge
Presenter Jonathan McCrea and Producer Aidan McKelvey discuss the making of the Futureproof documentary ‘The Lost Bridge’.
Futureproof Special: The Lost Bridge
Guests: Genevieve Von Petzinger, Paleoanthropologist and rock art researcher and Project Director of the LIACARA Project Dr. George Nash, As...
Gold: What is time?
We conventionally think of time as something simple and fundamental that flows uniformly, independently from everything else, from the past...
Extra: Decoding Birdsong
Guest: Julie Elie, Associate Project Scientist in the Department of Neuroscience at University of California, Berkeley.
Jim Al-Khalili on time and time travel
Guests: Jim Al Khalili, Theoretical Physicist, Host of BBC’s ‘The Life Scientific’ and author of ‘On Time: The Physics That Makes the Univer...
Extra: The Genetics of Wrongdoing
Guest: Kathryn Paige Harden, Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin and author of ‘Original Sin: The Genetics of Wrong...
Did we find evidence of life on Mars in the 1970’s?
Guests: Steven A. Benner, Chemist, Astrobiologist and author of ‘Meet the Neighbors: Life on Mars and How to Find It’ Jessamyn Fairfield fro...