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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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10 days ago - 33 mins

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Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Paleogenomics & De-Extinction

We are in a period of human-led mass extinction, as species of insect, plant, mammal bird and fish slowly fade from memory, is there any hope of returning the planet to a more natural state? Will de-extinction technologies every be scalable enough to re-wild entire ecosystems? And could new ways of extracting DNA answer some age old questions? Beth Shapiro is a Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of California Santa Cruz Paleogenomics Lab