Location:
Ireland
Genres:
Science Podcasts
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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. CONVERSATION THAT COUNTS | Ireland’s national independent talk station for news, sport, analysis and entertainment Listen to Newstalk at http://newstalk.com/listenlive | Download the GoLoud app now, the new home for Newstalk
Language:
English
Website:
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Extra: Bodyoids
5/12/2026
Guest: Hank Greely, Professor of Law and Expert in Bioethics at Stanford University
Duration:00:13:45
What is ‘Forensic Botany’?
5/10/2026
Guests:
Christopher Hardy, Forensic Botanist and Biology Professor at Millersville University
Laura Hayes, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
Tara Shine, Environmental Scientist
Duration:00:41:11
Extra: The Power of Plankton
5/5/2026
Guest: Vincent Doumeizel, Senior Adviser on the oceans to the United Nations Global Compact and author of ‘The Power of Plankton: How Plankton Made Life On Earth Possible and Why It’s Key To Our Future’.
Duration:00:19:48
The Smell of the Past
5/3/2026
Guests:
Dr. Barbara Huber, Archaeochemist at the at the University of Tubingen in Germany
Jessamyn Fairfield from NUI Galway
John Regan from Maynooth University
Duration:00:38:40
Extra: AI Improving Medicine
4/28/2026
Guest: Charlotte Blease, Associate Professor in the Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Sweden and Author of ‘Dr Bot: Why Doctors Can Fail Us – and How AI Could Save Lives’.
Duration:00:17:49
Building a Warp Drive
4/26/2026
Guests:
Dr. Katy Clough, Astrophysicist at Queen Mary University of London
Annie Curtis Body Research Lecturer in RCSI
Shane Bergin, Physicist & Assistant Prof in Science Education at UCD
Duration:00:31:43
Extra: How apples are engineered
4/21/2026
Guest: Kate Evans, Professor in the Department of Horticulture at Washington State University
Duration:00:17:18
Will AI replace scientists?
4/19/2026
Guests:
Jeff Clune, CIFAR AI chair at the Victor Institute and Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada
Jessamyn Fairfield from NUI Galway
Matthew Campbell from TCD
Duration:00:38:25
Extra: Why can’t we figure out static electricity?
4/14/2026
Guest: Scott Waitukaitis, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria in Klosterneuburg
Duration:00:18:26
The Dawn of Writing
4/12/2026
Guests:
Genevieve Von Petzinger, Paleoanthropologist and Rock Art Researcher and Project Director of the LIAACAR Project (The Living, Intelligent Archive of Ancient Culture, Art and Relational Archeology)
Dr. Ruth Freeman from Science Foundation Ireland
Shane Bergin, Physicist & Assistant Professor in Science Education at UCD
Duration:00:34:36
Extra: Why Are We Going Back To The Moon?
4/7/2026
Guest: Dallas Campbell, BBC Space Presenter and author of ‘Space Journal: The Art and Science of Cosmic Exploration’
Duration:00:16:54
Building a Robotic Oesophagus
4/5/2026
Guests:
Dr Eoin O'Cearbhaill, Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering at University College Dublin
Dr Shane Bergin, Physicist at UCD
Dr Lara Dungan, Immunologist and Medic
Duration:00:33:47
Why should we avoid creating contrails?
3/29/2026
Guests:
Dr Jessie Smith, Research Associate in Sustainable Aviation at the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge
Dr Fergus McAuliffe, Head of Research Engagement and Impact at Trinity College Dublin
Dr Shelley Brady, Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics at DCU
Duration:00:31:36
Extra: Movies reconstructed from mouse brain activity
3/24/2026
Guest: Dr Joel Bauer, Research Fellow at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour at UCL
Duration:00:15:41
What happens during a hallucination?
3/22/2026
Guests:
Dr Anna Georgiades, Lecturer in Early Intervention in Psychosis at King's College London
Dr Ruth Freeman
Dr John Regan
Duration:00:36:44
Extra: The Origins of Our Musical Ability
3/17/2026
Guest: Dr Ani Patel, Tufts University, Massachusetts
Duration:00:15:55
How The Brain Can Recover Forgotten Memories
3/15/2026
Guests:
Dr Benjamin J. Griffiths, University of Nottingham
Dr Ruth Freeman, Research Ireland
Dr Tara Shine, Environmental Scientist
Duration:00:33:55
Extra: Why animals see the world at different speeds
3/10/2026
Guest: Dr Kevin Healy, Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Galway
Duration:00:13:25
What you don’t know about respiration
3/8/2026
Guests:
New York Times bestselling author and Science Journalist James Nestor
Dr Ruth Freeman
Dr Lara Dungan
Duration:00:38:15
Extra: What influences your willingness to be helpful towards strangers?
3/3/2026
Guest: Dr Todd Vogel, Research Fellow in Psychology at the University of Birmingham
Duration:00:18:25