• 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 Min.
  • Extra: Does the Earth’s core hide vast hydrogen reservoirs and can it explain why it wont stop raining?
    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 Min.
  • 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 Min.
  • 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 Min.
  • 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 Min.
  • Extra: What Is Childhood Dementia?
    Feb 3 2026

    Guest: Prof Matthew Campbell, Head of the Genetics Department and Chair of Neurovascular Genetics at Trinity College Dublin

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    12 Min.
  • Building a womb lining in the lab
    Feb 1 2026

    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

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    36 Min.
  • Extra: Turning muscle signals into speech
    Jan 27 2026

    Guest: Professor Luigi Occhipinti, Research Professor of Smart Electronics, Biosystems and AI, at Cambridge University

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    14 Min.