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: Why can’t we figure out static electricity?
14/04/2026 Duration: 18minGuest: Scott Waitukaitis, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria in Klosterneuburg
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The Dawn of Writing
12/04/2026 Duration: 34minGuests:Genevieve Von Petzinger, Paleoanthropologist and Rock Art Researcher and Project Director of the LIAACAR Project (The Living, Intelligent Archive of Ancient Culture, Art and Relational Archeology)Dr. Ruth Freeman from Science Foundation IrelandShane Bergin, Physicist & Assistant Professor in Science Education at UCD
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Extra: Why Are We Going Back To The Moon?
07/04/2026 Duration: 16minGuest: Dallas Campbell, BBC Space Presenter and author of ‘Space Journal: The Art and Science of Cosmic Exploration’
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Building a Robotic Oesophagus
05/04/2026 Duration: 33minGuests:Dr Eoin O'Cearbhaill, Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering at University College DublinDr Shane Bergin, Physicist at UCDDr Lara Dungan, Immunologist and Medic
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Why should we avoid creating contrails?
29/03/2026 Duration: 31minGuests:Dr Jessie Smith, Research Associate in Sustainable Aviation at the Department of Engineering at the University of CambridgeDr Fergus McAuliffe, Head of Research Engagement and Impact at Trinity College DublinDr Shelley Brady, Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics at DCU
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Extra: Movies reconstructed from mouse brain activity
24/03/2026 Duration: 15minGuest: Dr Joel Bauer, Research Fellow at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour at UCL
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What happens during a hallucination?
22/03/2026 Duration: 36minGuests:Dr Anna Georgiades, Lecturer in Early Intervention in Psychosis at King's College LondonDr Ruth FreemanDr John Regan
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Extra: The Origins of Our Musical Ability
17/03/2026 Duration: 15minGuest: Dr Ani Patel, Tufts University, Massachusetts
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How The Brain Can Recover Forgotten Memories
15/03/2026 Duration: 33minGuests:Dr Benjamin J. Griffiths, University of NottinghamDr Ruth Freeman, Research IrelandDr Tara Shine, Environmental Scientist
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Extra: Why animals see the world at different speeds
10/03/2026 Duration: 13minGuest: Dr Kevin Healy, Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Galway
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What you don’t know about respiration
08/03/2026 Duration: 38minGuests:New York Times bestselling author and Science Journalist James NestorDr Ruth FreemanDr Lara Dungan
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Extra: What influences your willingness to be helpful towards strangers?
03/03/2026 Duration: 18minGuest: Dr Todd Vogel, Research Fellow in Psychology at the University of Birmingham
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Clothes with health tracking technology
01/03/2026 Duration: 32minGuests:Professor Steve Beeby, Chair in Emerging Technologies and Director of the Centre for Flexible Electronics and E-Textiles at the University of SouthamptonDr Tara Shine, Environemental ScientistProfessor Matthew Campbell, Head of Department at the Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin
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Extra: What drives the power of our tides and waves?
24/02/2026 Duration: 14minGuest: Prof Iris Möller, Coastal Geomorphologist and Chair of the Geography Department at Trinity College Dublin
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Predicting Scorpion Strikes
22/02/2026 Duration: 35minGuests:Dr Michel Dugon, Assistant Professor in Zoology and Principal Investigator of the Venom Systems Lab at the University of GalwayDr Jessamyn Fairfield, Lecturer in the School of Natural Sciences at the University of GalwayDr Laura Hayes, Research Fellow at the School of Cosmic Physics at DIAS
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Extra: Does the Earth’s core hide vast hydrogen reservoirs?
17/02/2026 Duration: 15minGuest:With Prof Jon Wade, Associate Professor of Planetary Materials, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford
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Making Life with Artificial Biological Intelligence
15/02/2026 Duration: 34minGuests: Dr Shelley Brady, Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics at DCUDr Shane Bergin, physicist at University College Dublin Adrian Woolfson, author of ‘The Future of Species: Authoring Life by means of Artificial Biological Intelligence’
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Extra: Solar Maximum and the Northern lights explained
10/02/2026 Duration: 14minGuest:Dr Alexandra Ruth Fogg, Postdoctoral Fellow in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
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What is Aphantasia? Why some brains can’t visualize
08/02/2026 Duration: 35minGuests: Dr Lara Dungan, immunologist, and Dr Shane Bergin, physicist at University College Dublin Prof Adam Zeman, Honorary Fellow at the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, at the University of Edinburgh
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Extra: What Is Childhood Dementia?
03/02/2026 Duration: 11minGuest: Prof Matthew Campbell, Head of the Genetics Department and Chair of Neurovascular Genetics at Trinity College Dublin