Futureproof With Jonathan Mccrea

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  • Narrator: Vários
  • Publisher: Podcast
  • Duration: 192:21:47
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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: What exactly is DNA?

    13/01/2026 Duration: 13min

    Guest: Dr Kevin Mitchell, Associate Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin

  • How blood vessels boost lab-grown mini-brains

    11/01/2026 Duration: 31min

    Guests:Dr Mihai Lomora, Scientist with CÚRAM, the Research Ireland Centre for Medical Devices based at the University of GalwayDr Jessamyn Fairfield from the School of Natural Sciences at the University of GalwayDr Fergus McAuliffe, Head of Research Engagement and Impact at Trinity College Dublin

  • Extra: Earth’s Early Wildfires

    06/01/2026 Duration: 12min

    Guest: Dr Clayton Magill, Associate Professor of Biogeochemistry at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland

  • Sustaining human life on the Moon and Mars

    04/01/2026 Duration: 15min

    Guest: Professor Matthew Gilliham, Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space, at the University of Adelaide

  • The Surprising Flaws of Evolution

    04/01/2026 Duration: 21min

    Dr Andy Dobson, author of ‘Flaws of Nature: The Limits and Liabilities of Natural Selection’

  • Extra: CAR T-Cell Therapy (Best of)

    30/12/2025 Duration: 19min

    Guests:Dr Larry Bacon, Consultant Haematologist from St James’s HospitalDr Nicola Gardiner, Chief Medical Scientist at the Cryobiology Laboratory Stem Cell Facility at St James’s

  • Best of Futureproof: Creating Dark Matter, Curing Addiction

    28/12/2025 Duration: 33min

    Guests:Dr John Regan, Maynooth UniversityYale Neuroscientist Vaughn Steele

  • Extra: Obtaining Fingerprints from Ammunition (Best of)

    23/12/2025 Duration: 14min

    Guest: Dr Colm McKeever, Assistant Lecturer and Researcher in Analytical Chemistry, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Biotechnology, at TUS

  • Best of Futureproof: Mirror Life & The Science of Embalming

    21/12/2025 Duration: 44min

    Guests:Kate Adamala, Associate Professor of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development at the University of MinnesotaGlyn Tallon, Founder of Tallon Mortuary Specialists in Navan

  • Extra: Is butt breathing achievable?

    16/12/2025 Duration: 14min

    Guest: Prof John Laffey, Professor of Anaesthesia Intensive Care Medicine at the School of Medicine of the University of Galway and a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at Galway University Hospitals.

  • The winter hibernation gene in animals

    13/12/2025 Duration: 32min

    Guests:Professor Tyler Stevenson, Head of Physiology, Ageing & Welfare at the University of GlasgowDr Ruth Freeman of Research IrelandDr Fergus McAuliffe, Head of Research Engagement and Impact at Trinity College Dublin

  • Extra: Vitamin D is linked to BMI?

    09/12/2025 Duration: 13min

    Guest: Prof Lena Zgaga, Professor in Epidemiology at the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the School of Health in Trinity

  • Can we witness stars form planets?

    06/12/2025 Duration: 34min

    Guests:Dr Emma Whelan, Department of Experimental Physics, Maynooth UniversityDr Tara Shine, Change by DegreesDr Ruth Freeman, Research Ireland

  • Extra: How we exploit artificial intelligence

    02/12/2025 Duration: 15min

    Guest: Taha Yasseri, Director of the Joint Centre for Sociology of Humans and Machines at Trinity College Dublin

  • Is the human mind the next frontier in warfare?

    01/12/2025 Duration: 29min

    Guests:Malcolm Dando, Emeritus Professor at the School of Social Sciences at the University of BradfordDr Shelley Brady of DCUDr Shane Bergin of UCD

  • Extra: The one thing you need to know about electricity

    25/11/2025 Duration: 19min

    Guest: Marcus Chown, Science Writer and author of ‘The One Thing You Need to Know’

  • Treatment-resistant depression

    22/11/2025 Duration: 26min

    Guests:Professor Valerie Voon, Professor of Neuropsychiatry and Neuromodulation at the University of CambridgeDr Jessamyn Fairfield of the School of Natural Sciences at the University of GalwayDr Shane Bergin, Physicist at UCD

  • Extra: The Age of Rock

    18/11/2025 Duration: 07min

    Guest: Dr Anjana Khatwa, earth scientist and author of ‘The Whispers of Rock – Stories from the Earth'

  • Creating 'Mirror Life'

    16/11/2025 Duration: 41min

    Guests:Kate Adamala, Associate Professor of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development at the University of MinnesotaImmunologist Dr Lara DunganDr John Regan, Department of Theoretical Physics at Maynooth University

  • Extra: How chimps rationally revise their beliefs & face blindness

    11/11/2025 Duration: 35min

    Guests:Dr Emily Sanford, Postdoctoral Researcher in Psychology at the University of California BerkeleyFiona Newell, Professor of Experimental Psychology at the Trinity Institute of NeurosciencesMeike Ramon, Cognitive Neuroscientist and Assistant Professor at the University of Fribourg

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