Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Updated: 16 Nov 2025 • 456 episodes
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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'

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16 Nov 2025 • EN

Creating 'Mirror Life'

Guests: Kate Adamala, Associate Professor of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development at the University of Minnesota Immunologist Dr Lara Dungan Dr John Regan, Department of Theoretical Physics at Maynooth University

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Guests: Dr Emily Sanford, Postdoctoral Researcher in Psychology at the University of California Berkeley Fiona Newell, Professor of Experimental Psychology at the Trinity Institute of Neurosciences Meike Ramon, Cognitive Neuroscientist and Assistant Professor at the University of Fribourg

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09 Nov 2025 • EN

Recovering Lost Memories

Guests: Prof Jane Aspell, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Head of the Self and Body Lab at Anglia Ruskin University Dr Ruth Freeman of Research Ireland Dr Shelley Brady, DCU

35 min
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Guest: Ana Angelova Volponi of King’s College London

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02 Nov 2025 • EN

Unusual Metamorphoses

Guests: Author Oren Harman Shane Bergin & Susan Kelleher

28 min
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Guest: Prof Kate Maguire, Professor In Astrophysics at Trinity College Dublin

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