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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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Playing Hide & Seek With Rats

After a decade of Futureproof we’ve learned many things and one of the principal lessons we’ve learned is that scientists are often both dedicated and innovative. Some will experiment on themselves, some will literally go to the ends of the Earth and beyond and some, like today's guest, will play hide and seek with Rats. Why? Let’s find out. Dr Michael Brecht, is Professor for Systems Neurobiology and Neural Computation' at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience at Humboldt-University, Berlin.