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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: Did black holes create dark matter?

4 days ago - 15 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Can we programme life like software?

4 days ago - 32 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Extra: How do new planets form?

12 days ago - 17 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Vacuuming DNA & Is the ocean darkening?

14 days ago - 30 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

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

21 days ago - 47 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Extra: Lyme Disease

a month ago - 14 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Futureproof Extra: Harvesting electricity from thin air

As our energy consumption continues to grow, we will need to find more and more ways to actually create the electricity we need. But soon you might be able to generate clean energy from thin air and that’s just one of the potential uses of a new device created by Dr. Jun Yao, Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and his team at the University of Massachusetts. He joins Jonathan to discuss.