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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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Could colour be the answer to reviving marine life?

a day ago - 27 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Extra: The role of mitochondria in why we need sleep

6 days ago - 13 mins

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What determines the birth sex of a child?

8 days ago - 33 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Extra: Why newborns feel pain differently to adults

13 days ago - 14 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Biggest human imaging study completes scan of 100,000 people

15 days ago - 37 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Extra: Diabetes - could there be a cure?

20 days ago - 14 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

How To Travel To The Stars

A few weeks back we chatted to Chris Wanjek about human spacefaring and he briefly talked about hollowing out an asteroid to use as an interstellar spacecraft.  This got us thinking about the idea of interstellar travel so we decided to find ourselves a scientist who was working on that precise thing. Our regular listeners will probably be unsurprised to hear that there is not just one scientist engaged in this research but numerous organisations Andreas Hein is the Executive Director of one such organisation;  The Initiative for Interstellar Studies