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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

Extra: How Does Pure Mathematics Shape Our World?

2 days ago - 13 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Extra: Did black holes create dark matter?

8 days ago - 15 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Can we programme life like software?

8 days ago - 32 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Extra: How do new planets form?

16 days ago - 17 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Vacuuming DNA & Is the ocean darkening?

18 days ago - 30 mins

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'Mr Mummy' on King Tut's tomb and performing a mummification

25 days ago - 47 mins

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Futureproof Extra: AI Mindreading

Speech to text, text to speech, but what about thoughts to text? A new technology has been developed which allows AI to convert your thoughts into text. The person behind the research is Alexander Huth, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. He joins me on this week’s Futureproof Extra to discuss “semantic decoders”.