Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Updated: 15 Jun 2025 • 414 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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Guests: Eoin Murphy & Shelley Brady Dr Bob Brier AKA Egyptologist 'Mr Mummy'

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10 Jun 2025 • EN

Extra: Lyme Disease

They’re tiny, silent, and often go unnoticed – but their bite can change your life. Ticks are on the rise in Ireland, and with them, a disease that’s both underreported and often misunderstood: lyme disease. Joining us is Dr Eoin Healy, retired research associate at UCC’s School of Biological, Earth and Environmental S

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The Earth’s core was thought to be a sealed vault 3,000 kilometers beneath our feet, isolated from the layers above. But now, new evidence is shaking that assumption to its core. Is the earth’s core leaking? Professor Matthias Willbold from the Department of Geochemistry and Isotope Geology at the University of Götting

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03 Jun 2025 • EN

Extra: Imperfect Genetics

Guest: Laurence Hurst, Professor of Evolutionary Genetics at the University of Bath and the author of ‘The Evolution of Imperfection’

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Guests: Professor David Webb, Professorial Research Fellow at Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies at Aston University in the UK Dr Shelley Brady of DCU Dr Shane Bergin of UCD

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Are we alone in the universe? Could there be other civilisations out there that we could possibly contact? In 1961, Astrophysicist Frank Drake tried to formulate an equation that could answer these questions. Today, we have finally reached a technological level that allows us to search for signs of life and technology

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