Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea
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Feb 4, 2025 • 18min
Futureproof Extra: Bioprinted Hearts
Guest: Professor Andrew Daly, Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Galway.
Feb 2, 2025 • 30min
When Mega-Icebergs Melt
Guest: Prof Geraint Tarling of the British Antarctic Survey.Also Newsround with Shane Bergin and Ruth Freeman.
Jan 28, 2025 • 19min
Extra: What is AMOC? And Why is it Changing?
Guest: Dr Gerard McCarthy, Oceanographer with ICARUS Climate Research Centre and Department of Geography.
Jan 26, 2025 • 31min
How New Memories Are Formed
Guest: Antonio Fernando Ruiz, Assistant Professor and Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences at Cornell University.
Jan 21, 2025 • 16min
Extra: Carbon Dioxide's Secrets
Guest: Dr Hana Jurikova, senior research fellow at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of St Andrews.
Jan 19, 2025 • 29min
How Decontamination Happens in Space
Guest: Dr Lokesh Joshi, Stokes Professor of Glycosciences at the Infectious Diseases Section of the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences at the University of Galway.
Jan 14, 2025 • 13min
Extra: The Wallace Line
Guest: Ian McFadden, Lecturer in Computational Ecology, Queen Mary University of London
Jan 12, 2025 • 33min
What Trees Can Tell Us
Guest: Tristan Gooley, author of 'How to Read a Tree'
Jan 7, 2025 • 16min
Extra: Bird Flu Epidemic in American Cattle
Guest: Maryn McKenna, Author and Journalist.
Jan 5, 2025 • 43min
What connects cancer & Alzheimer's disease?
Guest: Erin Abner, Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health at the University of Kentucky.
