Podcasts

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

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

Latest episodes

The Man Who Endured 200 Snake Bites

12 hours ago - 32 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Extra: Immunology from Deadly Pathogens

6 days ago - 14 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

The Smells of an Epileptic Seizure

8 days ago - 32 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Extra: is the truth really the truth?

13 days ago - 20 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

The new colour only 5 people have seen

15 days ago - 31 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Futureproof Extra: The Science of Risk (Best of)

20 days ago - 15 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Emotionally Intelligent AI

Computers and AI have long been a part of our workplace, our education system and more recently our social lives And as AI improves our relationships with it becomes ever more involved. Artificial Intelligence will probably take most of our jobs but will it also take our romantic partners? Dr Kevin Koidl, lead researcher on the Heliosphere project from Trinity’s School of Computer Science and Statistics and the ADAPT Centre was in studio where Jonathan asked the question: 'Could we replace our partners with a robot?'