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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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The Trouble With Gravity

Pick something up. Hold it in your hand. Right now you are exerting more force on that object than the gravitational force of planet Earth. For all the talk about the power of gravity - supermassive black holes, neutron stars, and the fact that it keeps us in orbit around the Sun - it’s actually pretty weak. But, it is also everywhere; entwined in the very fabric of our existence. So how is it that we still don’t actually know what it is? Richard Panek is the author of “The Trouble with Gravity: Solving the Mystery Beneath Our Feet” which is out in July. He joins Jonathan