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
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Extra: A guide to our immune system
27/08/2024 Duration: 15minGuest: John Trowsdale, Emeritus Professor of Immunology at the University of Cambridge.
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How neurons encode the meaning of words
25/08/2024 Duration: 39minGuest: Ziv Williams, Associate Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School.
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Extra: Is the dream of fusion power dead?
20/08/2024 Duration: 15minGuest: Dr. Brian D. Appelbe - Research Fellow in the Physics Department at Imperial College London.
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What is MicroRNA?
18/08/2024 Duration: 37minGuest: David Henshall - Professor of Physiology and Medical Physics at RCSI and author of Fine-Tuning Life: A Guide to MicroRNAs, Your Genome's Master Regulators.
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Extra: The Wooden Age
13/08/2024 Duration: 18minDirk Leder - Research associate in the office for Cultural Heritage in Lower Saxony.
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Studying Consciousness
11/08/2024 Duration: 43minLorina Naci - Associate Professor, leader of the 'Consciousness and Cognition' group at TCD.
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Extra: Symbiosis
06/08/2024 Duration: 15minDr. Gregory Moore - Senior Research Associate, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences at The University of Melbourne joined Jonathan on the show.
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Storm Chasing: The Science of Tornadoes
04/08/2024 Duration: 41minRobin Tanamachi - Associate Professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at Purdue University, joined Jonathan on the show
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Moon Landing 55th Anniversary Special
26/07/2024 Duration: 47minThis week, Jonathan was joined by Oliver Morton, Senior Editor at The Economist and author of The Moon: A History For The Future and by Sarah T. Stewart, Planetary Scientist and Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the UC Davis.
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Extra: Do I know you?
23/07/2024 Duration: 19minSadie Dingfelder - Author of Do I Know You?: A Faceblind Reporter’s Journey into the Science of Sight, Memory, and Imagination
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Why do some people always get lost?
21/07/2024 Duration: 41minNora Newcombe - Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Temple University @NoraNewcombe
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Extra: Turbulence
16/07/2024 Duration: 15minIvan Marusic is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Melbourne School of Engineering @engunimelb @unimelb
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What can we learn from whale ear wax?
14/07/2024 Duration: 33minStephen J. Trumble - Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at Baylor University & Affiliate Professor in the Institute of Marine Science at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks @stephenjtrumbleMichael Brecht - Professor for 'Systems Neurobiology and Neural Computation' at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience at Humboldt-University, Berlin @bccn_berlin @HumboldtUni @NNCN_Germany
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Extra: Mapping the Cosmos
09/07/2024 Duration: 14minDr Seshadri Nadathur, a co-author of the work and senior research fellow at the University of Portsmouth’s Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation @SeshNadathur @UoPCosmology
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The Evolution of Flight & Digital Babies
07/07/2024 Duration: 32minLev Parikian - Conducter & Author of Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing @LevParikian&Professor Ines Thiele - Principal Investigator of the Molecular Systems Physiology group at University of Galway and Principal Investigator with APC Microbiome Ireland @ines_thiele @uniofgalway
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Extra: You're All Talk, What Our Accents Say About Us
02/07/2024 Duration: 20minRob Drummond - Professor of Sociolinguistics at Manchester Metropolitan University and author of You’re All Talk: why we are what we speak
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The High Seas
30/06/2024 Duration: 34minOlive Heffernan - Science Journalist and Author of The High Seas: Ambition, Power and Greed on the Unclaimed Ocean @O_Heffernan
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Extra: The Swiftquake Comes to Dublin!
25/06/2024 Duration: 13minEleanor Dunn - PhD Researcher at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies @DIAS_Dublin
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How the things you see could alter how long you live!
23/06/2024 Duration: 38minGuest: Christi Gendron - Research Assistant Professor in Molecular & Integrative Physiology at The University of Michigan.
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Extra: The Evolutionary Effects of Endurance Hunting
18/06/2024 Duration: 18minEugene Morin - Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Trent University @TrentUResearch @TrentUniversity