Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

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Jonathan responds to your texts and tweets, is joined in studio for all the latest science stories for Newsround and speaks to one of our two guests featured on the show. Listen and subscribe to Futureproof with Johnathan McCrea on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.   You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'

  • 18 minutes 32 seconds
    Extra: A new blood pressure diagnostic device

    Professor David Connolly - Cardiovascular Research Programme Manager - College of Medicine, Nursing Health Sciences at National University of Ireland, Galway.

    12 November 2024, 11:00 am
  • 43 minutes 33 seconds
    Landing the Paris Agreement

    Todd Stern - Chief US negotiator on climate change for President Barack Obama and author of Landing the Paris Climate Agreement: How It Happened, Why It Matters, and What Comes Next @tsterndc.

    10 November 2024, 1:00 pm
  • 16 minutes 5 seconds
    Extra: Why are animals the size they are?

    Dr. Shovonlal Roy - Ecosystem modeller and Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Reading.

    5 November 2024, 11:00 am
  • 13 minutes 50 seconds
    Extra: What Is The Fairest Electoral System?

    Now if you’re anything like me, it’s at around this time every four or so years when you once again find yourself wondering how it’s possible that the person who wins the vote to be the next US President can get less votes and still win.

    It doesn’t seem fair at all but of course there are many ways in which democracy can seem unfair.

    So just what is the fairset system?

    Elizabeth Maggie Penn is Professor of Political Science and Quantitative Theory & Methods at Emory University.

    4 November 2024, 6:15 pm
  • 39 minutes 13 seconds
    Was ancient Greece's Antikythera mechanism the world's first computer?

    Mike Edmunds - Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics at Cardiff University & Founding member of the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project @cardiffPHYSX.

    3 November 2024, 1:00 pm
  • 13 minutes 49 seconds
    Extra: Mapping the brain of a fly

    Guest: Tamara Boto - Assistant Professor of Physiology in Trinity College Dublin @TamaraBoto @TCDPhysiology @tcddublin

    29 October 2024, 11:00 am
  • 33 minutes 14 seconds
    The future of law enforcement

    Guest: Martin Mullins - Director of Transgero and Professor of Risk Manangement at the University of Limerick @mjamullins @transgero @UL

    27 October 2024, 1:00 pm
  • 17 minutes 26 seconds
    Extra: Estimating Ireland's ancient populations

    Guest: Rowan McLaughlin - Researcher in the Hamilton Institute at Maynooth University @MU_Hamilton @MaynoothUni

    22 October 2024, 10:00 am
  • 35 minutes 40 seconds
    Replicating the moon

    Guest: Aidan Cowley - Science Officer at European Space Agency @esa @esaspaceflight

    20 October 2024, 12:00 pm
  • 15 minutes 59 seconds
    Extra: Incredible new heart-imaging technology

    Guest: Dr. Christoph Hennersperger, Co-Founder and CTO, Luma Vision.

    15 October 2024, 10:00 am
  • 30 minutes 52 seconds
    How drugs are discovered

    Guest: Dr William Pao, former Chief Development Officer at Pfizer and Head of Research at Roche and author of 'Breakthrough: The Quest for Life-Changing Medicines'.

    13 October 2024, 12:00 pm
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