Extra: Solar Maximum and the Northern lights explained
10/2/2026 | 14 mins.
Guest: Dr Alexandra Ruth Fogg, Postdoctoral Fellow in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
What is Aphantasia? Why some brains can’t visualize
08/2/2026 | 35 mins.
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
Extra: What Is Childhood Dementia?
03/2/2026 | 11 mins.
Guest: Prof Matthew Campbell, Head of the Genetics Department and Chair of Neurovascular Genetics at Trinity College Dublin
Building a womb lining in the lab
01/2/2026 | 36 mins.
Guests: Dr Susan Kelleher, School of Chemical Sciences at DCU Dr Shane Bergin, physicist at University College Dublin Dr Peter Rugg-Gunn, group leader at the Babraham Institute at the University of Cambridge
Extra: Turning muscle signals into speech
27/1/2026 | 14 mins.
Guest: Professor Luigi Occhipinti, Research Professor of Smart Electronics, Biosystems and AI, at Cambridge University
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