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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

Futureproof Extra: The Science of Risk (Best of)

5 days ago - 15 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Best of Futureproof: Becoming Concious & Rare Blood Plasma

7 days ago - 33 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Extra: How soon could we see lab-grown teeth?

12 days ago - 13 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

The Science of Embalming

14 days ago - 35 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Extra: How micro-robots will help detect cancer in patients

19 days ago - 15 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

What we know (and don't know) about the cosmos

21 days ago - 41 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Futureproof Extra: Creating the First Synthetic Human Embryo

Have we just been made futile as a reproductive species? This week researchers in the University of Cambridge and in the US announced their creation of synthetic human embryos that won’t need eggs or sperm. To explore how they did this and its practical implications, Dr David Walsh, chairman of First IVF joins Jonathan to discuss.