Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea
452 episodes - English - Latest episode: 20 days ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsJonathan 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.
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The Tully Monster
January 18, 2020 14:30 - 46 minutes - 2.71 KBDragons, Sasquatch The Monster of Troy. Human mythology is full of weird and wonderful creatures that have never existed in reality. One theory for the origins of such myths is that they are based on the discoveries of unexplained fossils. But the Tully Monster probably trumps them all for weirdness and wonderfulness and what’s more, it is real. So what was the Tully Monster? Dr Maria McNamara is Senior Lecturer in the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences at UCC.
Futureproof Extra: Optogenetics/SOUL
January 18, 2020 12:24 - 15 minutes - 941 BytesThe Jedi have it. Professor X has it, and that creepy snake from the Jungle Book has it. Often left to the realm of science fiction or fantasy, the idea of mind control has been around for quite a while. But it's only in recent years that it has not only become more of a possibility, but a probability...just not in the way you think. Dr. Diego Mendoza-Halliday is a researcher at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at M.I.T, he joined Jonathan to talk about his work in Optogenetics and a...