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Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

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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.

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  • June 21 · 44 min

    What happens when you're struck by lightning?

    Guests: Jessamyn Fairfield from NUI Galway, Eoin Murphy Science Communicator, Mary Ann Cooper Managing Director in the African Centres for Lightning Education & Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois and Felix Morsbach Privacy and Security Researcher at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

  • June 16 · 17 min

    Extra: Can we cure nightmares?

    Guest: Michelle Carr, Director of the Dream Engineering Laboratory at Montreal's Centre for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine and author of ‘Into the Dream Lab: The New Science of Dreams and Nightmares’.

  • June 14 · 31 min

    Before Trees - What Were ‘Prototaxites’?

    Guests: Dr. Corentin Loron, Paleobiologist in Trinity College Dublin Dr. Susan Kelleher, Associate Professor of Chemistry in DCU Shane Bergin, Physicist & Assistant Professor in Science Education at UCD

  • June 7 · 33 min

    How does sperm work in outer space?

    Guests: Hannah Lyons, Reproduction Researcher in Adelaide University Matthew Campbell from Trinity College Dublin Dr Ruth Freeman from Research Ireland

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