Podcasts

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: Is slowing down ageing possible?

a day ago - 12 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

The science behind memory distortion

3 days ago - 38 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Extra: Advances In Ophthalmic Medicine and Eyecare

8 days ago - 11 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Can brain stimulation cure addiction?

9 days ago - 38 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Extra: Why is our Earth spinning faster?

15 days ago - 14 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Could colour be the answer to reviving marine life?

17 days ago - 27 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Longevity, Immortality and the quest to defeat death with Aubrey De Grey

How do you eat an elephant? One spoon at a time, right? Well It's the same with living forever. No one is going to find a magic potion that will make you 20 again but over the years we are slowly, consistently and incrementally improving patient health and preventing diseases associated with ageing. We've nearly doubled life expectancy in just over a century. Doubled! Jonathan caught up with Author and Biomedical Gerontologist Aubrey De Grey at the Inaugural Longevity Summit in Dublin to hear why he thinks the first person to live to 150 has already been born.