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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May 4, 2025 • 31min
The new colour only 5 people have seen
Guests:Dr Shane BerginDr Jessamyn FairfieldProfessor Anya Hurlbert
Apr 29, 2025 • 15min
Futureproof Extra: The Science of Risk (Best of)
Guest: Don Ross, Experimental Economist and Philosopher of Science
Apr 27, 2025 • 33min
Best of Futureproof: Becoming Concious & Rare Blood Plasma
Guests:Dr Lorina NaciDr Andrew Godfrey, Medical & Scientific Director of the Irish Blood Transfusion Service
Apr 22, 2025 • 13min
Extra: How soon could we see lab-grown teeth?
Guest: Dr Bronagh Keane
Apr 20, 2025 • 35min
The Science of Embalming
Guests:Dr Shane BerginDr Ruth FreemanGlynn Tallon
Apr 15, 2025 • 15min
Extra: How micro-robots will help detect cancer in patients
Guest: Nikita Greenidge
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
