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.
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Episodes
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Apr 13, 2025 • 41min
What we know (and don't know) about the cosmos
Guests:Dr Laura HayesDr Shane BerginBrian Schmidt
Apr 8, 2025 • 13min
Extra: Why mosquitos taste before they bite
Guest: Lisa Baik, Postdoctoral researcher with the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale University
Apr 6, 2025 • 33min
Building a super particle collider
Guests:Dr Jessamyn Fairfield from the University of GalwayMedic and Immunologist Dr Lara DunganDr Sarah Williams, Assistant Professor of High Energy Physics at Cambridge University
Apr 1, 2025 • 15min
Extra: Why We Believe In Conspiracy Theories
Guest: Dr Daniel Jolley, Assistant Professor in Social Psychology at the University of Nottingham
Mar 30, 2025 • 34min
Self-Assembling Long-Lasting Contraceptive
Guests:Dr Ruth FreemanDr Lara DunganDr Giovanni Traverso, Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a Gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the US
Mar 25, 2025 • 16min
Extra: Using Virtual Reality To Conquer Fear of Public Speaking
Guest: Dr Chris MacDonald, Univeristy of Cambridge
Mar 23, 2025 • 32min
The Great Whale Pee Funnel
Guests:Dr Laura HayesDr Jessamyn FairfieldJoe Roman, Biologist at the University of Vermont
Mar 18, 2025 • 15min
Octopuses’ Weird Mating
Guest: Dr Wen-Sung Chung
Mar 16, 2025 • 32min
When Do We Become Conscious?
Guests:Dr Laura HayesDr Ruth FreemanDr Lorina Naci
Mar 11, 2025 • 15min
Extra: Rare Blood Plasma
Guest: Dr Andrew Godfrey, Medical & Scientific Director of the Irish Blood Transfusion Service
