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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.

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Space Elevators

Space Elevators

2024-05-0536:17

Professor Arun Misra is a Thomas Workman Emeritus Professor in Mechanical Engineering at McGill University.
Sam Van Wessenbergh is a Research Professor in the Laboratory for Functional Morphology of the Department of Biology at the University of Antwerp
Joseph Meany is a Science consultant and board member of the IRG (Interstellar Research Group)
Mike Benton is Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology at University of Bristol and author of Extinctions: How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves
Philip Goff is Professor of Philosophy at Durham University and author of Why? The Purpose of the Universe
Bryan Choi - Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School and Associate Director of the Centre for Brain Tumour Immunology and Immunotherapy at Mass General (Massachusetts General Hospital)
Near Death Experiences

Near Death Experiences

2024-04-1545:01

Jimo Borjigin is Associate Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology at the University of Michigan
Gold: Where Are We?

Gold: Where Are We?

2024-04-0748:12

Vanessa Collingridge is an Author, Broadcaster and Doctor of Historical CartographyHelene Courtois is Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Lyon and Author of Finding Our Place In The Universe
Annie Jacobsen is a Bestselling author & Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of DARPA - The Pentagon's Brain
Extra: Studying psi

Extra: Studying psi

2024-04-0213:17

Chris French is Emeritus Professor and Former Head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit at the University of London and author of The Science of Weird Shit: Why Our Brains Conjure the Paranormal
Annie Jacobsen is a Bestselling author & Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of Nuclear War: A Scenario
Dr. Jennifer Gunter is a Gynaecologist & author of Blood: The Science, Medicine and Mythology of Menstruation
Eat, Poop, Die

Eat, Poop, Die

2024-03-2437:08

Joe Roman - Conservation biologist and marine ecologist at the University of Vermont and Author of Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World
Jonathan speaks with Professor Brian Norton from the Tyndall National Institute
The Nocebo Effect

The Nocebo Effect

2024-03-1736:10

Charlotte Blease is Associate Professor in the Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Sweden and co-author of The Nocebo Effect: When Words Make You Sick
Francis Halzen is Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Principle Investigator at the Ice Cube Neutrino Observatory
Who Owns The Moon?

Who Owns The Moon?

2024-03-1038:30

Professor AC Grayling is a Philosopher and Author of Who Owns the Moon?: In Defence of Humanity’s Common Interests in Space
Extra: Brain Fog

Extra: Brain Fog

2024-03-0517:12

It’s almost exactly 4 years since the Covid 19 pandemic came to these shores and although thankfully the pandemic is over, there is still a lot to learn about the disease and its after effects.Long Covid is particularly perplexing but Irish scientists from the FutureNeuro Centre may have shed some light on one specific aspect of it; Brain FogSo what exactly is brain fog and how does a Covid infection bring it about?Dr. Matthew Campbell is a Professor in Trinity’s School of Genetics and Microbiology and Principal Investigator at the FutureNeuro Centre
Jonathan speaks to Cass Sunstein - Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard and Co-Author of "Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There" about habituation and his new book.
Jonathan is joined by Jim Carlton - Professor of Marine Sciences, Emeritus, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
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