Futureproof With Jonathan Mccrea

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  • Narrator: Vários
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  • Duration: 186:35:23
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Synopsis

Jonathan McCrea brings you the latest developments from the world of Science and Technology from robotics in warfare to artificial lifeforms and beyond

Episodes

  • Extra: Heart attacks may be triggered by infections

    16/09/2025 Duration: 14min

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

  • Dublin head scanner is 'breakthrough' in brain research

    14/09/2025 Duration: 31min

    Guests:Prof Redmond O'Connell, Professor in Decision Neuroscience at Trinity College DublinDr Ruth Freeman of Research IrelandDr Shane Bergin of UCD

  • Extra: Misophonia Rehabilitation

    09/09/2025 Duration: 12min

    Guest: Olwyn Morris, Audiologist and clinic owner of Medico Audiology

  • How Humans Came to Walk Upright

    07/09/2025 Duration: 34min

    Guests:Dr Terence D. Capellini, Chair of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard UniversityDr Lara Dungan, ImmunologistDr Shane Bergin of UCD

  • Extra: What is Weaver Syndrome?

    02/09/2025 Duration: 13min

    Guest: Adrian Bracken, Professor of Chromatin Biology at the Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin

  • Creating Toothpaste Made From Hair

    31/08/2025 Duration: 35min

    Guests:Dr Sherif Elsharkawy, Senior Clinical Lecturer in Prosthodontics, at the Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences at King's College LondonDr Shelley Brady of DCUProfessor Oran Kennedy of the RCSI

  • Extra: Eirsat-1 and The Future of Irish Satellites

    26/08/2025 Duration: 15min

    With Dr David McKeown, Assistant Professor at the UCD Centre for Space Research.

  • Attacking Cancer: CAR T-Cell Therapy

    26/08/2025 Duration: 36min

    With Dr Larry Bacon, Consultant Haematologist from St James’s Hospital, and Dr Nicola Gardiner, Chief Medical Scientist at the Cryobiology Laboratory Stem Cell Facility at St James’s.Newsround with Dr Ruth Freeman from Research Ireland and science communicator Fergus McAuliffe.

  • Extra: Is slowing down ageing possible?

    19/08/2025 Duration: 12min

    Guest: Eamonn Mallon, Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Leicester

  • The science behind memory distortion

    17/08/2025 Duration: 38min

    Guests:Ciara Greene, Associate Professor in the School of Psychology at UCD, where she heads up the Attention and Memory LaboratoryDr Lara Dungan, ImmunologistDr Tara Shine of Change By Degrees

  • Extra: Advances In Ophthalmic Medicine and Eyecare

    12/08/2025 Duration: 11min

    Guest: Patrick Condon, former Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at University Hospital Waterford and author of ‘Eye Healthcare – 90 Years of Progress’

  • Can brain stimulation cure addiction?

    11/08/2025 Duration: 38min

    Guests:Yale Neuroscientist Vaughn SteeleDr Shane Bergin, UCDSciene Writer Dr Claire O'Connell

  • Extra: Why is our Earth spinning faster?

    05/08/2025 Duration: 14min

    Guest: Robin Edwards, TCD

  • Could colour be the answer to reviving marine life?

    03/08/2025 Duration: 27min

    Guests:Holly CunninghamScience Communicator Eoin MurphySusan Kelleher, DCU

  • Extra: The role of mitochondria in why we need sleep

    29/07/2025 Duration: 13min

    Guest: Gero Miesenböck of Oxford University

  • What determines the birth sex of a child?

    27/07/2025 Duration: 32min

    Guests:Siwen Wang, Harvard UniversityDr Ruth Freeman, Research IrelandDr Susan Kelleher, DCU

  • Extra: Why newborns feel pain differently to adults

    22/07/2025 Duration: 13min

    Guest: Professor Lorenzo Fabrizi, Professor of Developmental Systems Neuroscience at University College London

  • Biggest human imaging study completes scan of 100,000 people

    20/07/2025 Duration: 37min

    Guests:Kevin O'Sullivan of The Irish TimesCatherine McGuinness, Science CommunicatorProfessor Naomi Allen, Chief Scientist at UK Biobank and Professor in Epidemiology at the University of Oxford

  • Extra: Diabetes - could there be a cure?

    15/07/2025 Duration: 14min

    Guest: Dr Simon Piggott, Clinical Research Fellow with the Diabetes Complications Research Centre at the Conway Institute, UCD

  • Why are some species better at fooling predators?

    13/07/2025 Duration: 32min

    Guests:Science Communicator Eoin MurphyDCU's Shelley BradyDr Tom Reader, Evolutionary and Behavioural Ecologist, University of Nottingham

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