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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Recovering Lost Memories
09/11/2025 Duration: 35minGuests: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
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Extra: How Close Are We To Lab-Grown Teeth?
04/11/2025 Duration: 18minGuest: Ana Angelova Volponi of King’s College London
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Unusual Metamorphoses
02/11/2025 Duration: 28minGuests:Author Oren HarmanShane Bergin & Susan Kelleher
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Extra: The Origin of Dark Energy
28/10/2025 Duration: 10minGuest: Prof Kate Maguire, Professor In Astrophysics at Trinity College Dublin
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Recovering fingerprints from ammunition for forensics
26/10/2025 Duration: 30minGuests:Dr Colm McKeever, Assistant Lecturer and Researcher in Analytical Chemistry, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Biotechnology, at TUSDr Shelley Brady, DCUDr Laura Hayes, DIAS
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Why do pregnant women get morning sickness?
19/10/2025 Duration: 36minGuests:Professor Molly Fox of UCLALaura HayesShane Bergin
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Extra: The Future of Solar Energy
14/10/2025 Duration: 11minGuest: Paul Deane, Clean Energy Futures Lecturer at UCC
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The Harms of Over-Diagnosis
12/10/2025 Duration: 38minGuests:Neurologist Dr Suzanne O'SullivanShelley Brady, DCUShane Bergin, UCD
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Extra: Huntington’s disease slowed with gene therapy
07/10/2025 Duration: 14minGuest: Dr Lauren Byrne, Principal Investigator at the Huntington’s Disease Centre at UCL
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Rebuilding Our Body With Regenerative Medicine
05/10/2025 Duration: 29minGuests:Mary Roach, Science AuthorDr Laura Hayes, DIASDr Jessamyn Fairfield, University of Galway
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Extra: Making the world's smallest violin
30/09/2025 Duration: 11minGuest: Prof Kelly Morrison, Professor of Experimental Physics at Loughborough University
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The creation of artificial cartilage
28/09/2025 Duration: 37minGuests: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
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Extra: Dinosaur eggs directly dated for the first time
23/09/2025 Duration: 13minGuest: Professor Maria McNamara, Professor of Palaeontology at University College Cork
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"Clearest sign" of life on Mars
21/09/2025 Duration: 33minGuests:Professor Sanjeev Gupta, Professor of Earth Science at Imperial College LondonDr Susan Kelleher of DCUDr Shane Bergin of UCD
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Extra: Heart attacks may be triggered by infections
16/09/2025 Duration: 14minGuest: Prof Claudia Monaco, Professor of Cardiovascular Inflammation at the University of Oxford
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Dublin head scanner is 'breakthrough' in brain research
14/09/2025 Duration: 31minGuests:Prof Redmond O'Connell, Professor in Decision Neuroscience at Trinity College DublinDr Ruth Freeman of Research IrelandDr Shane Bergin of UCD
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Extra: Misophonia Rehabilitation
09/09/2025 Duration: 12minGuest: Olwyn Morris, Audiologist and clinic owner of Medico Audiology
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How Humans Came to Walk Upright
07/09/2025 Duration: 34minGuests:Dr Terence D. Capellini, Chair of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard UniversityDr Lara Dungan, ImmunologistDr Shane Bergin of UCD
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Extra: What is Weaver Syndrome?
02/09/2025 Duration: 13minGuest: Adrian Bracken, Professor of Chromatin Biology at the Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin