The Science Show

The H5N1 strain of avian influenza is currently ripping through the US, infecting wild animals, livestock and people. One person has died, and around 70 more infections have been confirmed.

Meanwhile, the Trump administration has made massive cuts to the nation's leading science and health agencies, and announced plans to withdraw from the World Health Organization.

As the risk of another pandemic rises, what does all this mean for us in Australia?

San Antonio Texas has restored the San Antonio River encouraging plants and animals back to the city.

An asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 is causing a stir among the space community and a frenzy in the media. It currently has a 2.3 per cent chance of crashing into Earth three days before Christmas in 2032. But this is not our first asteroid rodeo. 

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Vale the Professor of Happiness Felicia Huppert

Varroa is the parasite responsible for destroying bee colonies all around the world and is regarded as "the greatest biological threat to Australia's honey bee population."

The good news is that some honey bees can fight back. And they're being helped by breeders, scientists and artificial insemination on the tiniest scale.

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Unlike other deserts, Australian deserts experience occasional high rainfall. It supports a unique ecology.

Australia's summer UV levels are high enough to cause sunburn in as little as 11 minutes.

Yet the summer sun in the Northern Hemisphere rarely feels that full on.

So why does our sunlight have that extra "bite"?

Spoiler: it's not the hole in the ozone layer.

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Opals, ancient humans and sharks dating back 465 million years. This week we see how today’s world has been shaped from the distant past.

Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) do much more than fill whales' bellies. These tiny crustaceans also play a huge role in Earth's carbon cycle.

They sequester around 40 million tonnes of carbon each year, mostly in their poo — that's the equivalent of taking 35 million cars off the road.

Yet there's plenty we don't know about these thumb-sized critters.

Now a new study has revealed what they get up to under the Antarctic winter sea ice, and how this behaviour affects carbon calculations.

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Opalised fossils previously overlooked at the Australian Museum have overturned our understanding of the origin of mammals with the emergence of a whole new age of mammals: The Age of Monotremes.