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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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Extra: How do new planets form?

8 days ago - 17 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Vacuuming DNA & Is the ocean darkening?

10 days ago - 30 mins

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

17 days ago - 47 mins

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Extra: Lyme Disease

22 days ago - 14 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Is The Earth's Core Leaking?

23 days ago - 33 mins

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Extra: Imperfect Genetics

a month ago - 13 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Into The Abyss

The wonders of the human mind are perhaps most evident in what it does when you are not thinking. When you want to move your arm it just moves. You remember the things you experience. And when you look at the incredibly complex world in which you live it intuitively makes sense to you. But what happens if even one of these innate faculties fails? Anthony David is Director of University College London’s Institute of Mental Health and author of Into The Abyss: A Neuropsychiatrist’s Notes on Troubled Minds