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 36 seconds
    Extra: What is AMOC? And Why is it Changing?

    Guest: Dr Gerard McCarthy, Oceanographer with ICARUS Climate Research Centre and Department of Geography.

    28 January 2025, 11:00 am
  • 30 minutes 52 seconds
    How New Memories Are Formed

    Guest: Antonio Fernando Ruiz, Assistant Professor and Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences at Cornell University.

    26 January 2025, 12:00 pm
  • 15 minutes 49 seconds
    Extra: Carbon Dioxide's Secrets

    Guest: Dr Hana Jurikova, senior research fellow at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of St Andrews.

    21 January 2025, 11:00 am
  • 28 minutes 41 seconds
    How Decontamination Happens in Space

    Guest: Dr Lokesh Joshi, Stokes Professor of Glycosciences at the Infectious Diseases Section of the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences at the University of Galway.

    19 January 2025, 12:00 pm
  • 13 minutes 17 seconds
    Extra: The Wallace Line

    Guest: Ian McFadden, Lecturer in Computational Ecology, Queen Mary University of London

    14 January 2025, 11:00 am
  • 33 minutes 20 seconds
    What Trees Can Tell Us

    Guest: Tristan Gooley, author of 'How to Read a Tree'

    12 January 2025, 12:00 pm
  • 15 minutes 44 seconds
    Extra: Bird Flu Epidemic in American Cattle

    Guest: Maryn McKenna, Author and Journalist.

    7 January 2025, 11:00 am
  • 42 minutes 33 seconds
    What connects cancer & Alzheimer's disease?

    Guest: Erin Abner, Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health at the University of Kentucky.

    5 January 2025, 12:00 pm
  • 47 minutes 49 seconds
    The Best of 2024

    Guests:

    Les Johnson - Author & Chief Technologist with NASA @LesAuthor @IRG_Space.

    Robin Tanamachi - Associate Professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at Purdue University @tornatrix @PurdueEAPS @LifeAtPurdue.

    Sam Parnia - Director of Critical Care & Resuscitation Research at the New York University School of Medicine and author of Lucid Dying: The New Science Revolutionizing How We Understand Life and Death @nyugsom_ccrs @nyulangone.

    29 December 2024, 11:00 am
  • 20 minutes 4 seconds
    Extra: What Animals Understand About Death

    Guest: Susana Monso - Philosopher of Animal Minds at the National Distance Education University in Madrid and Author of Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death @UNED.

    24 December 2024, 11:00 am
  • 30 minutes 2 seconds
    Into the Unknown

    Guest: Kelsey Johnson - Professor of Astronomy at the University of Virginia, former president of the American Astronomical Society & author of Into the Unknown: The Quest to Understand the Mysteries of the Cosmos @UVaAstroLabs @UVA.

    22 December 2024, 12:00 pm
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