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Mar 29, 2026 • 32min
Why should we avoid creating contrails?
Guests:Dr Jessie Smith, Research Associate in Sustainable Aviation at the Department of Engineering at the University of CambridgeDr Fergus McAuliffe, Head of Research Engagement and Impact at Trinity College DublinDr Shelley Brady, Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics at DCU
Mar 24, 2026 • 16min
Extra: Movies reconstructed from mouse brain activity
Guest: Dr Joel Bauer, Research Fellow at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour at UCL
Mar 22, 2026 • 37min
What happens during a hallucination?
Guests:Dr Anna Georgiades, Lecturer in Early Intervention in Psychosis at King's College LondonDr Ruth FreemanDr John Regan
Mar 17, 2026 • 16min
Extra: The Origins of Our Musical Ability
Guest: Dr Ani Patel, Tufts University, Massachusetts
Mar 15, 2026 • 34min
How The Brain Can Recover Forgotten Memories
Guests:Dr Benjamin J. Griffiths, University of NottinghamDr Ruth Freeman, Research IrelandDr Tara Shine, Environmental Scientist
Mar 10, 2026 • 13min
Extra: Why animals see the world at different speeds
Guest: Dr Kevin Healy, Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Galway
Mar 8, 2026 • 38min
What you don’t know about respiration
Guests:New York Times bestselling author and Science Journalist James NestorDr Ruth FreemanDr Lara Dungan
Mar 3, 2026 • 18min
Extra: What influences your willingness to be helpful towards strangers?
Guest: Dr Todd Vogel, Research Fellow in Psychology at the University of Birmingham
Mar 1, 2026 • 33min
Clothes with health tracking technology
Guests:Professor Steve Beeby, Chair in Emerging Technologies and Director of the Centre for Flexible Electronics and E-Textiles at the University of SouthamptonDr Tara Shine, Environemental ScientistProfessor Matthew Campbell, Head of Department at the Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin
Feb 24, 2026 • 14min
Extra: What drives the power of our tides and waves?
Guest: Prof Iris Möller, Coastal Geomorphologist and Chair of the Geography Department at Trinity College Dublin
