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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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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
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Episodes
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
Clothes with health tracking technology
3/1/2026
Guests:
Professor Steve Beeby, Chair in Emerging Technologies and Director of the Centre for Flexible Electronics and E-Textiles at the University of Southampton
Dr Tara Shine, Environemental Scientist
Professor Matthew Campbell, Head of Department at the Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin
Duration:00:32:40
Extra: What drives the power of our tides and waves?
2/24/2026
Guest: Prof Iris Möller, Coastal Geomorphologist and Chair of the Geography Department at Trinity College Dublin
Duration:00:14:11
Predicting Scorpion Strikes
2/22/2026
Guests:
Dr Michel Dugon, Assistant Professor in Zoology and Principal Investigator of the Venom Systems Lab at the University of Galway
Dr Jessamyn Fairfield, Lecturer in the School of Natural Sciences at the University of Galway
Dr Laura Hayes, Research Fellow at the School of Cosmic Physics at DIAS
Duration:00:35:53
Extra: Does the Earth’s core hide vast hydrogen reservoirs and can it explain why it wont stop raining?
2/17/2026
Guest:
With Prof Jon Wade, Associate Professor of Planetary Materials, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford
Duration:00:15:57
Making Life with Artificial Biological Intelligence
2/15/2026
Guests:
Dr Shelley Brady, Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics at DCU
Dr Shane Bergin, physicist at University College Dublin
Adrian Woolfson, author of ‘The Future of Species: Authoring Life by means of Artificial Biological Intelligence’
Duration:00:34:30
Extra: Solar Maximum and the Northern lights explained
2/10/2026
Guest:
Dr Alexandra Ruth Fogg, Postdoctoral Fellow in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
Duration:00:14:49
What is Aphantasia? Why some brains can’t visualize
2/8/2026
Guests:
Dr Lara Dungan, immunologist, and Dr Shane Bergin, physicist at University College Dublin
Prof Adam Zeman, Honorary Fellow at the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, at the University of Edinburgh
Duration:00:35:36
Extra: What Is Childhood Dementia?
2/3/2026
Guest: Prof Matthew Campbell, Head of the Genetics Department and Chair of Neurovascular Genetics at Trinity College Dublin
Duration:00:11:40