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What\u2019s been called the storm of the century – Hurricane Melissa \u2013 has barrelled through Jamaica, Cuba, and the Bahamas over the past two days. Hannah Cloke, Professor of Hydrology at the University of Reading, explains whether Melissa was caused \u2013 or made worse – by human-made climate change. <\/p>\n
As the H5N1 bird flu season picks up across British farms, virologist Ian Brown from the Pirbright Institute assesses its threat and turns our attention to a largely ignored strain of bird flu \u2013 H9N2 \u2013 which a recent study suggests is becoming adapted to human cells. <\/p>\n
The interstellar comet 3I\/Atlas has inspired some bizarre theories about alien life coming into our solar system. BBC science journalist Roland Pease, who has been watching these cosmic events and the pseudoscientific myths that follow in their wake for decades, gives us his take. <\/p>\n
And mathematician Katie Steckles brings us her favourite finds from the world of science.<\/p>\n
If you want to test your climate change knowledge, head to bbc.co.uk search for BBC Inside Science and follow the links to The Open University to take the quiz.<\/p>\n
Presenter: Victoria Gill
\nProducers: Ella Hubber, Jonathan Blackwell, Tim Dodd
\nEditor: Martin Smith
\nProduction Co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth<\/p>\n