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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: Did black holes create dark matter?

2 days ago - 15 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Can we programme life like software?

2 days ago - 32 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Extra: How do new planets form?

10 days ago - 17 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Vacuuming DNA & Is the ocean darkening?

12 days ago - 30 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

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

19 days ago - 47 mins

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Extra: Lyme Disease

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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.