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: 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
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Time Dilation & The Practical Challenges of Interstellar Travel
16/06/2024 Duration: 39minLes Johnson - Author & Space Technologist
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Gold: Faces
06/06/2024 Duration: 21minIn this special episode of Futureproof we look at Face Blindness and super recognition with Professor Fiona Newell - Professor of Experimental Psychology at the Trinity Institiute of Neurosciences and Meike Ramon - Cognitive neuroscientist and Assistant Professor at the University of Fribourg
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Extra: Carbon Capture
04/06/2024 Duration: 18minDr John Breen - Chief Technology Officer of NEG8 Carbon @NEG8Carbon
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How the way we walk can tell us how healthy we are!
02/06/2024 Duration: 34minGuests this week:Dr Aidan Boran - Founder/CEO at Digital Gait Labs @aidan_boran & Professor Seán Kennelly - Consultant Geriatrician and Director of the Institute of Memory & Cognition at Tallaght University Hospital (TUH) @SPKennelly @TUH_Tallaght
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Extra: Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation
28/05/2024 Duration: 13minGeorge Musser - Contributing editor for Scientific American magazine and author of Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation: Why Physicists Are Studying Human Consciousness and AI to Unravel the Mysteries of the Universe
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Exoplanet Weather
26/05/2024 Duration: 38minProfessor Johanna Vos - Assistant Professor in the School of Physics at Trinity College
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Extra: How Do We Divide Geological Time?
21/05/2024 Duration: 16minDr. Siobhan Power - Geologist with the Geological Survey Ireland
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The Video Game that Aids Stroke Recovery
19/05/2024 Duration: 44minJohn Krakauer - Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, and Director of the Center for the Study of Motor Learning and Brain Repair at Johns Hopkins
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Extra: Could Europa Clipper Detect Life on Jupiter's Moon?
14/05/2024 Duration: 14minFabian Klenner is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Washington
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THE EVOLUTION OF EGGS
12/05/2024 Duration: 43minJules Howard - Zoological Correspondent and Author of Infinite Life: A Revolutionary Story of Eggs, Evolution and Life on Earth
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Extra: Ant Supercolonies
08/05/2024 Duration: 16minJohn Whitfield is a Science journalist and Author