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 subscribe to Futureproof with Johnathan McCrea on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.   You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'

Treatment-resistant depression

Guests:Professor Valerie Voon, Professor of Neuropsychiatry and Neuromodulation at the University of CambridgeDr Jessamyn Fairfield of the School of Natural Sciences at the University of GalwayDr Shane Bergin, Physicist at UCD

11-22
27:20

Extra: The Age of Rock

Guest: Dr Anjana Khatwa, earth scientist and author of ‘The Whispers of Rock – Stories from the Earth'

11-18
08:39

Creating 'Mirror Life'

Guests:Kate Adamala, Associate Professor of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development at the University of MinnesotaImmunologist Dr Lara DunganDr John Regan, Department of Theoretical Physics at Maynooth University

11-16
36:03

Extra: How chimps rationally revise their beliefs & face blindness

Guests:Dr Emily Sanford, Postdoctoral Researcher in Psychology at the University of California BerkeleyFiona Newell, Professor of Experimental Psychology at the Trinity Institute of NeurosciencesMeike Ramon, Cognitive Neuroscientist and Assistant Professor at the University of Fribourg

11-11
37:19

Recovering Lost Memories

Guests:Prof Jane Aspell, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Head of the Self and Body Lab at Anglia Ruskin UniversityDr Ruth Freeman of Research IrelandDr Shelley Brady, DCU

11-09
37:49

Extra: How Close Are We To Lab-Grown Teeth?

Guest: Ana Angelova Volponi of King’s College London

11-04
19:36

Unusual Metamorphoses

Guests:Author Oren HarmanShane Bergin & Susan Kelleher

11-02
29:57

Extra: The Origin of Dark Energy

Guest: Prof Kate Maguire, Professor In Astrophysics at Trinity College Dublin

10-28
11:59

Recovering fingerprints from ammunition for forensics

Guests:Dr Colm McKeever, Assistant Lecturer and Researcher in Analytical Chemistry, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Biotechnology, at TUSDr Shelley Brady, DCUDr Laura Hayes, DIAS

10-26
30:55

Extra: How to verify supplement quality

Guest: Professor John Nolan

10-21
17:20

Why do pregnant women get morning sickness?

Guests:Professor Molly Fox of UCLALaura HayesShane Bergin

10-19
37:45

Extra: The Future of Solar Energy

Guest: Paul Deane, Clean Energy Futures Lecturer at UCC

10-14
12:31

The Harms of Over-Diagnosis

Guests:Neurologist Dr Suzanne O'SullivanShelley Brady, DCUShane Bergin, UCD

10-12
40:12

Extra: Huntington’s disease slowed with gene therapy

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

10-07
16:01

Rebuilding Our Body With Regenerative Medicine

Guests:Mary Roach, Science AuthorDr Laura Hayes, DIASDr Jessamyn Fairfield, University of Galway

10-05
30:50

Extra: Making the world's smallest violin

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

09-30
12:42

The creation of artificial cartilage

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

09-28
38:43

Extra: Dinosaur eggs directly dated for the first time

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

09-23
14:34

"Clearest sign" of life on Mars

Guests:Professor Sanjeev Gupta, Professor of Earth Science at Imperial College LondonDr Susan Kelleher of DCUDr Shane Bergin of UCD

09-21
34:07

Extra: Heart attacks may be triggered by infections

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

09-16
15:30

Louis VXI

Drive Shane Bergen is a cranky, pathetic arsehole. Just imagine opening a science show with that bullshit. Learn self-awareness, or shut the fuck up.

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Martin Barrett

In a recent podcast Jonathan was musing how a life would be meaningless unless he contributed towards the advancement of humanity. please reflect on what an insult this actually is to the vast majority of humanity who mostly live and die in obscurity.

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Declan O'Brien

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Raymond Cullen

Faster proof. Loved it. More please! 👍😃

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Rob Floorboards

I love the show, and normally agree with much of what you say, but Jonathan where's your sense of wonder at how awesome the universe is... I think you doubled up on the negative pills that morning 😉

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