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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. CONVERSATION THAT COUNTS | Ireland’s national independent talk station for news, sport, analysis and entertainment Listen to Newstalk at http://newstalk.com/listenlive | Download the GoLoud app now, the new home for Newstalk

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Extra: How apples are engineered

2026/04/21

Guest: Kate Evans, Professor in the Department of Horticulture at Washington State University

Will AI replace scientists?

2026/04/19

Guests: Jeff Clune, CIFAR AI chair at the Victor Institute and Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada Jessamyn Fairfield from NUI Galway Matthew Campbell from TCD

Extra: Why can’t we figure out static electricity?

2026/04/14

Guest: Scott Waitukaitis, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria in Klosterneuburg

The Dawn of Writing

2026/04/12

Guests: Genevieve Von Petzinger, Paleoanthropologist and Rock Art Researcher and Project Director of the LIAACAR Project (The Living, Intelligent Archive of Ancient Culture, Art and Relational Archeology) Dr. Ruth Freeman from Science Foundation Ireland Shane Bergin, Physicist & Assistant Professor in Science Education at UCD

Extra: Why Are We Going Back To The Moon?

2026/04/07

Guest: Dallas Campbell, BBC Space Presenter and author of ‘Space Journal: The Art and Science of Cosmic Exploration’

Building a Robotic Oesophagus

2026/04/05

Guests: Dr Eoin O'Cearbhaill, Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering at University College Dublin Dr Shane Bergin, Physicist at UCD Dr Lara Dungan, Immunologist and Medic

Why should we avoid creating contrails?

2026/03/29

Guests: Dr Jessie Smith, Research Associate in Sustainable Aviation at the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge Dr Fergus McAuliffe, Head of Research Engagement and Impact at Trinity College Dublin Dr Shelley Brady, Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics at DCU

Extra: Movies reconstructed from mouse brain activity

2026/03/24

Guest: Dr Joel Bauer, Research Fellow at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour at UCL

What happens during a hallucination?

2026/03/22

Guests: Dr Anna Georgiades, Lecturer in Early Intervention in Psychosis at King's College London Dr Ruth Freeman Dr John Regan

Extra: The Origins of Our Musical Ability

2026/03/17

Guest: Dr Ani Patel, Tufts University, Massachusetts

How The Brain Can Recover Forgotten Memories

2026/03/15

Guests: Dr Benjamin J. Griffiths, University of Nottingham Dr Ruth Freeman, Research Ireland Dr Tara Shine, Environmental Scientist

Extra: Why animals see the world at different speeds

2026/03/10

Guest: Dr Kevin Healy, Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Galway

What you don’t know about respiration

2026/03/08

Guests: New York Times bestselling author and Science Journalist James Nestor Dr Ruth Freeman Dr Lara Dungan

Extra: What influences your willingness to be helpful towards strangers?

2026/03/03

Guest: Dr Todd Vogel, Research Fellow in Psychology at the University of Birmingham

Clothes with health tracking technology

2026/03/01

Guests: Professor Steve Beeby, Chair in Emerging Technologies and Director of the Centre for Flexible Electronics and E-Textiles at the University of Southampton Dr Tara Shine, Environemental Scientist Professor Matthew Campbell, Head of Department at the Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin

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4.5 out of 5

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★★★★★

Russell's Sister 2016/01/30

I learn EVERY podcast

Enlightening with self-depredation, and not overtly word nerdy! Also with a keen sense of Irish fun that makes me look forward each week to listening.

★★☆☆☆

Shelby Lofty 2024/04/22

Jonathan needs to stop being so rude

I was going to subscribe but every episode I’ve listened to when they do the news at the beginning, Jonathan is always so condescending to the corresp...

★★★☆☆

JSimp 2014/04/08

Listen, Please

Good topics. :) However, a pet peeve: When interviewing an expert, LISTEN. Don’t interrupt. Clarify when needed, but allow the interviewee to wan...

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