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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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Futureproof Gold: The Limits of Knowledge

Where do we come from? How did the universe come about? And what is it? These are some of the biggest questions we as a species can ask and for a lot of us science provides the best method by which to arrive at some answers. But can science really answer these questions and if not, why do we persist with it? Marcelo Gleiser is Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth College and author of The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning First aired 17/3/2018