17 February

The Nature of Love

For the day that’s in it, Futureproof looks at the science behind love (This piece was first published on www.newstalk.ie on 13th Feb 2013) What is love? Haddaway famously once asked in 1993. It was, judging by the rest of the lyrics, a rhetorical question, but seeing as it’s Valentine’s Day, it might be appropriate to […]

6 August

Life on Mars?

We’ve landed things on Mars before, but never like this.  The landing of NASA’s Curiosity Rover at around 6.30am this morning was an awesome feat of engineering, delivering a 1 tonne buggy loaded with state-of-the-art technology to an awkward dry planet after a journey of over 550 million kilometres.   Its mission?  To begin the search […]

29 May

RTE Guide: Why Science

This short piece was written for the RTE Guide to promote The Science Squad on RTE 1, starting June 14th at 7pm Why Science? Jonathan McCrea Though I never knew it, I was born at a time when science was particularly cool.  In the late seventies NASA was exploring the skies with the shuttle missions, […]

28 May

Irish Independent: Who Wants To Live Forever?

PUBLICATION: IRISH INDEPENDENT DATE: 14TH MAY (HEALTH SECTION) AUTHOR: JONATHAN MCCREA On 22nd March 2012, Fred Chamberlain died for the first time. Unlike most people, he was not buried or cremated, nor was his body donated to a university for the education of anatomy students. Instead, as the 111th patient of Alcor Life Extension (an […]

30 January

Quickreviews: Canon S100 and Nokia Lumia 800

Canon S100 QuickReview Overview The Canon S100 is a high-end compact designed for the enthusiast. Priced at over €500, it’s positioned to be as close to a DSLR as a compact can be and as such features some extremely impressive specs for such a portable camera. Pros: Extremely portable high-performance camera with serious spec. Wide […]