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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'

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Why are some species better at fooling predators?

3 hours ago - 33 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Extra: How Does Pure Mathematics Shape Our World?

5 days ago - 13 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Extra: Did black holes create dark matter?

11 days ago - 15 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Can we programme life like software?

11 days ago - 32 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Extra: How do new planets form?

19 days ago - 17 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Vacuuming DNA & Is the ocean darkening?

21 days ago - 30 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Futureproof Extra: Combating Bad Data & Misleading Numbers

Nature is, without over-egging things, an unstoppable force – one which we pale miserably in comparison to with all our brio and intellect. But we do try to understand nature and the world we live in and perhaps the most fundamental way that we do that is through numbers. And while we like to think we have a pretty good grasp of them, that’s unfortunately, not always the case. Georgina Sturge, author of ‘Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers’ and the House of Commons Library's statistics specialist. She joins Jonathan to discuss.