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499 episodes
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Date created
2011/01/26
Latest episode
2026/10/06
Average duration
29 min.
Release period
4 days
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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: A Computer Made From DNA
2026/10/06
Guest: Damien Woods, Professor of Computer Science in the Hamilton Institute at Maynooth University
Symbiosis: Collaboration in Nature
2026/10/04
Guests:
Rowan Hooper, author of ‘Togetherness: Symbiosis and the Hidden Story of Life’s Greatest Collaborations’
Matthew Campbell, Professor of Genetics at TCD
Ciara Greene, Associate Professor in the School of Psychology, UCD
Extra: CMLase - The Enzyme That Could Reverse Ageing
2026/09/29
Guest: Aaron Cravens, Founder and Chief executive of Revel Pharmaceuticals
Why are killer whales ramming yachts?
2026/09/27
Guests:
Dr. Luke Rendell, Biologist at Sean Mammal Research Unit in the University of St. Andrews
Matthew Campbell, Professor of Genetics at TCD
Ciara Greene, Associate Professor in the School of Psychology, UCD
Extra: Did Life Start Twice On Earth?
2026/09/22
Guest: Bill Martin - Evolutionary Biologist and Head of the Institute of Molecular Evolution at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf
Could ozempic cure addiction?
2026/09/20
Guests:
Philip Smyth, Broadcaster and Science Communicator
Dr. Laura Hayes, Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies
Prof. Paul Kenny, Nash Family Professor of Neuroscience and Director of The Friedman Brain Institute in the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City
Extra: Behind The Scenes of The Lost Bridge
2026/09/15
Presenter Jonathan McCrea and Producer Aidan McKelvey discuss the making of the Futureproof documentary ‘The Lost Bridge’.
Futureproof Special: The Lost Bridge
2026/09/13
Guests:
Genevieve Von Petzinger, Paleoanthropologist and rock art researcher and Project Director of the LIACARA Project
Dr. George Nash, Associate Professor in the Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool
Dr. Barbara Oosterwijk, Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Exeter
Shane Diffily, National Treasurer Irish Cave Rescue Organisation
Gold: What is time?
2026/09/10
We conventionally think of time as something simple and fundamental that flows uniformly, independently from everything else, from the past to the future, measured by clocks and watches.
In the course of time, the events of the universe succeed each other in an orderly way: pasts, presents, futures.
The past is fixed, the future open... And yet, all of this has turned out to be false.
Carlo Rovelli is a Theoretical Physicist and author of ‘The Order of Time’ and joins Jonathan to discuss.
First aired 21/7/2018
Extra: Decoding Birdsong
2026/09/08
Guest: Julie Elie, Associate Project Scientist in the Department of Neuroscience at University of California, Berkeley.
Jim Al-Khalili on time and time travel
2026/09/06
Guests:
Jim Al Khalili, Theoretical Physicist, Host of BBC’s ‘The Life Scientific’ and author of ‘On Time: The Physics That Makes the Universe Tick‘
Dr. Ruth Freeman from Research Ireland
Matthew Campbell, Professor of Genetics in Trinity College Dublin
Extra: The Genetics of Wrongdoing
2026/09/01
Guest: Kathryn Paige Harden, Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin and author of ‘Original Sin: The Genetics of Wrongdoing, the Problem of Blame and the Future of Forgiveness’
Did we find evidence of life on Mars in the 1970’s?
2026/08/30
Guests:
Steven A. Benner, Chemist, Astrobiologist and author of ‘Meet the Neighbors: Life on Mars and How to Find It’
Jessamyn Fairfield from the University of Galway
Fergus McAuliffe, Head of Research Engagement and Impact Trinity College Dublin
Extra: Growing Old in Ireland - 20 Years of the TILDA Study
2026/08/25
Guest: Rose Anne Kenny, Regis Professor of Medicine at Trinity College Dublin and Founding Principal Investigator of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
How many insects are there?
2026/08/23
Guests:
Alex Smith, Associate Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Dr Ruth Freeman from Science Foundation Ireland
Matthew Campbell from TCD
Podcast reviews
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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...
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.
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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