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...
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Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea
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...
Episodes
20 of 500 episodesExtra: 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...
Extra: Growing Old in Ireland - 20 Years of the TILDA Study
Guest: Rose Anne Kenny, Regis Professor of Medicine at Trinity College Dublin and Founding Principal Investigator of The Irish Longitudinal...
How many insects are there?
Guests: Alex Smith, Associate Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada Dr Ruth Freema...
Extra: The Irish scientists tackling organ transplant rejection
Guest: Professor Róisín Dolan, Chief Investigator with the Sentinel Study Ireland at St. Vincent's University Hospital
The Greenland shark discovered on Ireland’s coast
Guests: Emilie De Loose, Project Officer of the Atlantic Whale Deal in the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group John Regan from Maynooth University...
Gold: Neil DeGrasse Tyson - A Brief Welcome to the Universe
Science Communicator extraordinaire Neil deGrasse Tyson joined Jonathan in 2021 to discuss his book ‘A Brief Welcome to the Universe: A Pock...
Observing the Solar Eclipse
Guests: Peter Gallagher, Director of Dunsink Observatory at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and an Adjunct Professor at Trinity Co...