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Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea
Hosted by Newstalk · EN
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.
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Extra: How Wi-Fi can be used for surveillance
5d ago00:14:36Tap to summarizeGuest: Felix Morsbach, Privacy and Security Researcher at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Transcribe →What happens when you're struck by lightning?
1w ago00:44:10Tap to summarizeGuests: Jessamyn Fairfield from NUI Galway, Eoin Murphy Science Communicator, Mary Ann Cooper Managing Director in the African Centres for Lightning Education & Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois and Felix Morsbach Privacy and Security Researcher at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
Transcribe →Extra: Can we cure nightmares?
2w ago00:17:24Tap to summarizeGuest: Michelle Carr, Director of the Dream Engineering Laboratory at Montreal's Centre for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine and author of ‘Into the Dream Lab: The New Science of Dreams and Nightmares’.
Transcribe →Before Trees - What Were ‘Prototaxites’?
2w ago00:31:29Tap to summarizeGuests:Dr. Corentin Loron, Paleobiologist in Trinity College DublinDr. Susan Kelleher, Associate Professor of Chemistry in DCUShane Bergin, Physicist & Assistant Professor in Science Education at UCD
Transcribe →Extra: Was there human sacrifice in ancient Rome?
3w ago00:13:27Tap to summarizeGuest: Frederic Auth, Doctoral Researcher at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Transcribe →How does sperm work in outer space?
3w ago00:33:37Tap to summarizeGuests:Hannah Lyons, Reproduction Researcher in Adelaide UniversityMatthew Campbell from Trinity College DublinDr Ruth Freeman from Research Ireland
Transcribe →Extra: How microbes tackle pollution
4w ago00:15:24Tap to summarizeGuest: Ludmilla Aristilde, Environmental Engineering Professor at Northwestern University
Transcribe →The Chimpanzee War in Uganda
4w ago00:42:56Tap to summarizeGuests:John Mitani, Primatologist at the University of Michigan and Co-Founder of the Ngogo Chimpanzee ProjectLaura Hayes, Dublin Institute for Advanced StudiesDr Ruth Freeman of Research Ireland
Transcribe →Extra: New Prostate Cancer Trials in Ireland
May 2600:14:45Tap to summarizeGuest: Dr Paul Kelly, Medical Director of the UPMC Cancer Network in Ireland
Transcribe →Learning while you sleep!
May 2400:31:50Tap to summarizeGuests:Dr Karen Konkoly, Dream Scientist at the University of CambridgeDr Ruth Freeman of Research IrelandProfessor Annie Curtis of the RCSI
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