
Futureproof
Science Podcasts
Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea is Newstalk's
flagship science programme that has traveled the globe from French Guiana to the Arctic Circle.
Location:
Ireland
Genres:
Science Podcasts
Description:
Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea is Newstalk's flagship science programme that has traveled the globe from French Guiana to the Arctic Circle.
Language:
English
Website:
https://www.newstalk.com/
Episodes
Extra: What Is Childhood Dementia?
2/3/2026
Guest: Prof Matthew Campbell, Head of the Genetics Department and Chair of Neurovascular Genetics at Trinity College Dublin
Duration:00:11:40
Building a womb lining in the lab
2/1/2026
Guests:
Dr Susan Kelleher, School of Chemical Sciences at DCU
Dr Shane Bergin, physicist at University College Dublin
Dr Peter Rugg-Gunn, group leader at the Babraham Institute at the University of Cambridge
Duration:00:36:20
Extra: Turning muscle signals into speech
1/27/2026
Guest: Professor Luigi Occhipinti, Research Professor of Smart Electronics, Biosystems and AI, at Cambridge University
Duration:00:14:23
Why some wounds won’t heal
1/25/2026
Guests:
Professor Kimberly Kline, Professor in Microbiology and Molecular Medicine at The University of Geneva and Visiting Scholar at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Dr Shelley Brady, DCU’s Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics
Dr John Regan, Research Fellow in the Department of Theoretical Physics at Maynooth University
Duration:00:31:04
Extra: What if stopping Alzheimer’s means targeting one gene?
1/20/2026
Guest: Dr Dylan Williams, Principal Research Fellow in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology at UCL
Duration:00:13:51
Tackling Space Debris
1/18/2026
Guests:
Dr Penelope Wozniakiewicz, Senior Lecturer in Space Science at the University of Kent
Dr Shane Bergin
Dr John Regan
Duration:00:31:42
Extra: What exactly is DNA?
1/13/2026
Guest: Dr Kevin Mitchell, Associate Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin
Duration:00:13:29
How blood vessels boost lab-grown mini-brains
1/11/2026
Guests:
Dr Mihai Lomora, Scientist with CÚRAM, the Research Ireland Centre for Medical Devices based at the University of Galway
Dr Jessamyn Fairfield from the School of Natural Sciences at the University of Galway
Dr Fergus McAuliffe, Head of Research Engagement and Impact at Trinity College Dublin
Duration:00:31:51
Extra: Earth’s Early Wildfires
1/6/2026
Guest: Dr Clayton Magill, Associate Professor of Biogeochemistry at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland
Duration:00:12:11
Sustaining human life on the Moon and Mars
1/4/2026
Guest: Professor Matthew Gilliham, Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space, at the University of Adelaide
Duration:00:15:06
The Surprising Flaws of Evolution
1/4/2026
Dr Andy Dobson, author of ‘Flaws of Nature: The Limits and Liabilities of Natural Selection’
Duration:00:21:45
Extra: CAR T-Cell Therapy (Best of)
12/30/2025
Guests:
Dr Larry Bacon, Consultant Haematologist from St James’s Hospital
Dr Nicola Gardiner, Chief Medical Scientist at the Cryobiology Laboratory Stem Cell Facility at St James’s
Duration:00:19:40
Best of Futureproof: Creating Dark Matter, Curing Addiction
12/28/2025
Guests:
Dr John Regan, Maynooth University
Yale Neuroscientist Vaughn Steele
Duration:00:33:34
Extra: Obtaining Fingerprints from Ammunition (Best of)
12/23/2025
Guest: Dr Colm McKeever, Assistant Lecturer and Researcher in Analytical Chemistry, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Biotechnology, at TUS
Duration:00:14:09
Best of Futureproof: Mirror Life & The Science of Embalming
12/21/2025
Guests:
Kate Adamala, Associate Professor of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development at the University of Minnesota
Glyn Tallon, Founder of Tallon Mortuary Specialists in Navan
Duration:00:44:41
Extra: Is butt breathing achievable?
12/16/2025
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.
Duration:00:14:51
The winter hibernation gene in animals
12/13/2025
Guests:
Professor Tyler Stevenson, Head of Physiology, Ageing & Welfare at the University of Glasgow
Dr Ruth Freeman of Research Ireland
Dr Fergus McAuliffe, Head of Research Engagement and Impact at Trinity College Dublin
Duration:00:32:50
Extra: Vitamin D is linked to BMI?
12/9/2025
Guest: Prof Lena Zgaga, Professor in Epidemiology at the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the School of Health in Trinity
Duration:00:13:30
Can we witness stars form planets?
12/6/2025
Guests:
Dr Emma Whelan, Department of Experimental Physics, Maynooth University
Dr Tara Shine, Change by Degrees
Dr Ruth Freeman, Research Ireland
Duration:00:34:27
Extra: How we exploit artificial intelligence
12/2/2025
Guest: Taha Yasseri, Director of the Joint Centre for Sociology of Humans and Machines at Trinity College Dublin
Duration:00:15:14