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: What is AMOC? And Why is it Changing?
28/01/2025 Duration: 18minGuest: Dr Gerard McCarthy, Oceanographer with ICARUS Climate Research Centre and Department of Geography.
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How New Memories Are Formed
26/01/2025 Duration: 30minGuest: Antonio Fernando Ruiz, Assistant Professor and Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences at Cornell University.
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Extra: Carbon Dioxide's Secrets
21/01/2025 Duration: 15minGuest: Dr Hana Jurikova, senior research fellow at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of St Andrews.
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How Decontamination Happens in Space
19/01/2025 Duration: 28minGuest: Dr Lokesh Joshi, Stokes Professor of Glycosciences at the Infectious Diseases Section of the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences at the University of Galway.
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Extra: The Wallace Line
14/01/2025 Duration: 13minGuest: Ian McFadden, Lecturer in Computational Ecology, Queen Mary University of London
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What Trees Can Tell Us
12/01/2025 Duration: 33minGuest: Tristan Gooley, author of 'How to Read a Tree'
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Extra: Bird Flu Epidemic in American Cattle
07/01/2025 Duration: 15minGuest: Maryn McKenna, Author and Journalist.
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What connects cancer & Alzheimer's disease?
05/01/2025 Duration: 42minGuest: Erin Abner, Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health at the University of Kentucky.
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The Best of 2024
29/12/2024 Duration: 47minGuests:Les Johnson - Author & Chief Technologist with NASA @LesAuthor @IRG_Space.Robin Tanamachi - Associate Professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at Purdue University @tornatrix @PurdueEAPS @LifeAtPurdue.Sam Parnia - Director of Critical Care & Resuscitation Research at the New York University School of Medicine and author of Lucid Dying: The New Science Revolutionizing How We Understand Life and Death @nyugsom_ccrs @nyulangone.
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Extra: What Animals Understand About Death
24/12/2024 Duration: 20minGuest: Susana Monso - Philosopher of Animal Minds at the National Distance Education University in Madrid and Author of Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death @UNED.
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Into the Unknown
22/12/2024 Duration: 30minGuest: Kelsey Johnson - Professor of Astronomy at the University of Virginia, former president of the American Astronomical Society & author of Into the Unknown: The Quest to Understand the Mysteries of the Cosmos @UVaAstroLabs @UVA.
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Extra: Mushroom Robots
17/12/2024 Duration: 13minRob Shepherd - Professor in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University @CornellMAE @Cornell.
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How quantum computing works
17/12/2024 Duration: 34minDr. Ciaran Hickey - Assistant Professor in the School of Physics at UCD and a member of UCD's Centre for Quantum Engineering, Science and Technology (C-QuEST) @Ciaran__Hickey @cquest_ucd @ucddublin.
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Extra: Private speech in twins
10/12/2024 Duration: 13minNancy Segal - Professor of Psychology, Director of the Twin Studies Center at California State University and author of 9 books about twins @nlsegal.
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Can death be abolished?
08/12/2024 Duration: 47minAriel Zeleznikow-Johnston - Neuroscientist and author of The Future Loves You: How and Why We Should Abolish Death @ariel_zj.
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Extra: The Prosthetic Memory System
03/12/2024 Duration: 13minDr. Robert Hampson - Professor of Physiology/Pharmacology and Neurology at Wake Forest School of Medicine and lead author of this paper @wakehealth
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Evolution's Bite and the Synthetic Age
01/12/2024 Duration: 32minPeter Ungar - Paleoanthropologist and Author of Evolution’s Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins @PeterSUngarChristopher Preston - Professor of Philosophy at the University Of Montana and Author of The Synthetic Age: Outdesigning Evolution, Resurrecting Species, and Reengineering Our World @SyntheticAge
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Extra: Regeneration - The Internal World
26/11/2024 Duration: 16minCaroline Curtin - Senior lecturer in the Department of Anatomy and Regenerative Medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland @CarolineCurtin8 @AnatRcsiGarry Duffy - Professor of Anatomy and Regenerative Therapies at University of Galway @gduffy00 @uniofgalway
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What 'mastering' AI looks like
24/11/2024 Duration: 52minJeremy Kahn - AI Editor at Fortune Magazine and author of Mastering AI: A Survival Guide to Our Superpowered Future @jeremyakahn @FortuneMagazine
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Extra: Regeneration - Virtual Worlds
19/11/2024 Duration: 15minPeter Lynch - Lecturer in Computer Games in TUD 0868130745 @WeAreTUDublinAphra Kerr - Professor of Information & Communication Studies and a senior adviser at the UCD Centre for Digital Policy 0872891531 @AphraK @DigitalPolicyIE