249 episodes

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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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.

Listen and subscribe to Futureproof with Johnathan McCrea on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

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You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'

    Space Elevators

    Space Elevators

    Professor Arun Misra is a Thomas Workman Emeritus Professor in Mechanical Engineering at McGill University.

    • 34 min
    Extra: Why Don't Woodpeckers Get Concussed?

    Extra: Why Don't Woodpeckers Get Concussed?

    Sam Van Wessenbergh is a Research Professor in the Laboratory for Functional Morphology of the Department of Biology at the University of Antwerp

    • 13 min
    The Interstellar Workshop

    The Interstellar Workshop

    Joseph Meany is a Science consultant and board member of the IRG (Interstellar Research Group)

    • 42 min
    Extra: Extinctions: How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves

    Extra: Extinctions: How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves

    Mike Benton is Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology at University of Bristol and author of Extinctions: How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves

    • 18 min
    The Purpose of the Universe

    The Purpose of the Universe

    Philip Goff is Professor of Philosophy at Durham University and author of Why? The Purpose of the Universe

    • 45 min
    Extra: Could We Cure Brain Tumours?

    Extra: Could We Cure Brain Tumours?

    Bryan Choi - Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School and Associate Director of the Centre for Brain Tumour Immunology and Immunotherapy at Mass General (Massachusetts General Hospital)

    • 16 min

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