Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

This episode covers the Nobel Prize for detecting cosmic neutrinos via the IceCube experiment, a study showing sedentary adults gain lean mass from…

Jonathan McCrea explores the mathematics of coincidence with statistician Michael Salter-Dowsend, who deconstructs listener-submitted stories to reveal their true probabilities.

Professor Damien Woods from Maynooth University discusses his team's creation of a DNA-based computer that performs calculations without electricity or continuous fuel.

Jonathan McCrea discusses the failed attempt to rescue the Swift observatory, Eli Lilly’s new triple-action weight loss drug, and a study on attentional biases in children with depressed mothers.

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This episode of Futureproof explores recent science news, including brain evolution, UK biotech funding, infant sex differences, and laser-driven solar sails.

Evolutionary biologist Bill Martin discusses the transition from inert rock to living cells, proposing that the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA)…

Jonathan McCrea discusses a mathematician's debunking of the Parthenon's optical illusion, the US military's confirmed space weapons, and Stanford's creation of mice with human brain tissue.

Jonathan McCrea and producer Aidan McKelvey deconstruct the "Lost Bridge" documentary, recounting their visit to a cave in western Ireland where…

Jonathan McCrea joins paleoanthropologist Genevieve von Petzinger and a team of experts to explore a cave in County Clare, Ireland, identified by an AI system as a potential site for ancient rock art.

In this episode, host Jonathan McCrea interviews Carlo Rovelli, author of *The Order of Time*, to explore how our intuitive perception of time is fundamentally flawed.