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Building a Robotic Oesophagus
05/04/2026 | 33 mins.
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
Why should we avoid creating contrails?
29/03/2026 | 31 mins.
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
Extra: Movies reconstructed from mouse brain activity
24/03/2026 | 15 mins.
Guest: Dr Joel Bauer, Research Fellow at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour at UCL
What happens during a hallucination?
22/03/2026 | 36 mins.
Guests:
Dr Anna Georgiades, Lecturer in Early Intervention in Psychosis at King's College London

Dr Ruth Freeman

Dr John Regan
Extra: The Origins of Our Musical Ability
17/03/2026 | 15 mins.
Guest: Dr Ani Patel, Tufts University, Massachusetts

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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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