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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 entertainmentListen to Newstalk at http://newstalk.com/listenlive | Download the GoLoud app now, the new home for Newstalk

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SShane Bergin9×DDr. Lara Dungan8×DDr Ruth Freeman7×DDr. Ruth Freeman6×DDr. Shane Bergin6×

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Episodes (488)

What you don’t know about respiration

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Mar 8, 202638:15completed

Extra: What influences your willingness to be helpful towards strangers?

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Mar 3, 202618:25pending

Clothes with health tracking technology

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Mar 1, 202632:40pending

Extra: What drives the power of our tides and waves?

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Feb 24, 202614:11pending

Predicting Scorpion Strikes

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Feb 22, 202635:53pending

Extra: Does the Earth’s core hide vast hydrogen reservoirs?

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Feb 17, 202615:57pending

Making Life with Artificial Biological Intelligence

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Feb 15, 202634:30pending

Extra: Solar Maximum and the Northern lights explained

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Feb 10, 202614:49pending

What is Aphantasia? Why some brains can’t visualize

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Feb 8, 202635:36pending

Extra: What Is Childhood Dementia?

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Feb 3, 202611:40pending

Building a womb lining in the lab

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Feb 1, 202636:20pending

Extra: Turning muscle signals into speech

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Jan 27, 202614:23pending

Why some wounds won’t heal

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Jan 25, 202631:04pending

Extra: What if stopping Alzheimer’s means targeting one gene?

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Jan 20, 202613:51pending

Tackling Space Debris

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Jan 18, 202631:42pending

Extra: What exactly is DNA?

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Jan 13, 202613:29pending

How blood vessels boost lab-grown mini-brains

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Jan 11, 202631:51pending

Extra: Earth’s Early Wildfires

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Jan 6, 202612:11pending

Sustaining human life on the Moon and Mars

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Jan 4, 202615:06pending

The Surprising Flaws of Evolution

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Jan 4, 202621:45pending

Extra: CAR T-Cell Therapy (Best of)

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Dec 30, 202519:40pending

Best of Futureproof: Creating Dark Matter, Curing Addiction

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Dec 28, 202533:34pending

Extra: Obtaining Fingerprints from Ammunition (Best of)

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Dec 23, 202514:09pending

Best of Futureproof: Mirror Life & The Science of Embalming

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Dec 21, 202544:41pending

Extra: Is butt breathing achievable?

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Dec 16, 202514:51pending

The winter hibernation gene in animals

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Dec 13, 202532:50pending

Extra: Vitamin D is linked to BMI?

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Dec 9, 202513:30pending

Can we witness stars form planets?

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Dec 6, 202534:27pending

Extra: How we exploit artificial intelligence

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Dec 2, 202515:14pending

Is the human mind the next frontier in warfare?

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Dec 1, 202529:06pending

Extra: The one thing you need to know about electricity

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Nov 25, 202519:56pending

Treatment-resistant depression

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Nov 22, 202526:54pending

Extra: The Age of Rock

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Nov 18, 20257:15pending

Creating 'Mirror Life'

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Nov 16, 202541:04pending

Extra: How chimps rationally revise their beliefs & face blindness

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Nov 11, 202535:17pending

Recovering Lost Memories

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Nov 9, 202535:04pending

Extra: How Close Are We To Lab-Grown Teeth?

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Nov 4, 202518:05pending

Unusual Metamorphoses

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Nov 2, 202528:14pending

Extra: The Origin of Dark Energy

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Oct 28, 202510:25pending

Recovering fingerprints from ammunition for forensics

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Oct 26, 202530:42pending

Extra: How to verify supplement quality

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Oct 21, 202516:15pending

Why do pregnant women get morning sickness?

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Oct 19, 202536:42pending

Extra: The Future of Solar Energy

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Oct 14, 202511:05pending

The Harms of Over-Diagnosis

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Oct 12, 202538:56pending

Extra: Huntington’s disease slowed with gene therapy

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Oct 7, 202514:42pending

Rebuilding Our Body With Regenerative Medicine

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Oct 5, 202529:19pending

Extra: Making the world's smallest violin

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Sep 30, 202511:44pending

The creation of artificial cartilage

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Sep 28, 202537:50pending

Extra: Dinosaur eggs directly dated for the first time

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Sep 23, 202513:23pending

"Clearest sign" of life on Mars

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Sep 21, 202533:01pending

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