Episodios

  • Extra: What influences your willingness to be helpful towards strangers?
    Mar 3 2026

    Guest: Dr Todd Vogel, Research Fellow in Psychology at the University of Birmingham

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    18 m
  • Clothes with health tracking technology
    Mar 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

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    33 m
  • Extra: What drives the power of our tides and waves?
    Feb 24 2026

    Guest: Prof Iris Möller, Coastal Geomorphologist and Chair of the Geography Department at Trinity College Dublin

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    14 m
  • Predicting Scorpion Strikes
    Feb 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

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    36 m
  • Extra: Does the Earth’s core hide vast hydrogen reservoirs?
    Feb 17 2026

    Guest:

    With Prof Jon Wade, Associate Professor of Planetary Materials, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford

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    16 m
  • Making Life with Artificial Biological Intelligence
    Feb 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’

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    35 m
  • Extra: Solar Maximum and the Northern lights explained
    Feb 10 2026

    Guest:

    Dr Alexandra Ruth Fogg, Postdoctoral Fellow in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

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    15 m
  • What is Aphantasia? Why some brains can’t visualize
    Feb 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

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    36 m