SCIENCE

The program at China Conservation and Research Centre for the Giant Panda has its most successful year ever, with 42 cubs born in 2017.

Easter Island has been used as an example of humankind's selfishness; a moral tale of the dangers of environmental destruction. But new research is painting a different picture.

The star, nicknamed Kronos after the child-eating Titan of Greek mythology, is the clearest and most dramatic case observed to date of a sun-like star consuming its own planets.

The week's best news and sport photos, from California wildfires and Vietnam floods, to the battle for Raqqa, Kenya election protests and Rohingya Muslim refugee crisis.

A breakthrough in the research, scientists believe, would help prevent humanitarian disasters and false alarms.

The participants must remain in the same position for entire duration of the Nasa study, which causes their bodies to adapt as if they were in space.

The data transmitted by Sentinel-5p will also help scientists to further study the formation of holes in the Earth's ozone layer.

Extensive sea ice formation in East Antarctica kill thousands of Adélie penguins – the second such devastation in four years.

The distance of 66,000 light years goes way beyond the previous record for such measurement and could soon help scientists understand the extent of our galaxy.

The storm that hit Vietnam caused its worst flooding in years, submerging more than 30,000 houses and damaging infrastructure, crops and livestock.

The gruesome "undertaking behaviours" were found to increase the chances of a new colony succeeding.

For millenia people have wondered about the "sea people" invasions of the eastern Mediterranean that ended the Bronze Age, new documents shed some light.

The burial garments were found in 9th and 10th century graves in Birka and Gamla Uppsala in Sweden and kept in storage for more than 100 years before being re-examined.

Rising emissions of harmful chemicals could threaten the recovery of the Earth's protective ozone layer, 30 years after a successful international treaty was agreed to protect it.

Novae occur when dying stars dramatically erupt back into life, suddenly becoming incredibly bright. When they were first observed, they were mistaken for new stars.

An object known as TC4 came within 26,000 miles of the planet's surface - which is inside the moon's orbit and just above the altitude of satellites which orbit the Earth

The "canyons" are 200m deep and 15km across, and run the entire length of the underside of the Dotson ice shelf.

All cars, trucks, vans and buses must be electric vehicles in three years time. Anyone caught driving a non-electric car will be fined £60.

Scientists found that every year around 43kg of gold and 3,000kg of silver end up in Swiss sewers.

Nasa's Space Launch System will have the largest and most powerful rocket stage ever assembled and will aid in deep space exploration, including missions to Mars.

Haumea's size is roughly similar to Pluto's and it takes approximately 285 Earth years to orbit the Sun.

Aerial photos show enormous scale of devastation, with block after block obliterated, leaving smouldering piles of ash dotted by brick chimneys and the skeletons of burnt-out cars.

The gap, measuring around 80,000km2 at the largest, was spotted in the frozen ice of Antarctica's Weddell Sea.

The successful feat marks the third time SpaceX has used a "flight proven" Falcon 9 rocket booster.

One of the main drawbacks of renewable energy is its variability, but storing the electricity generated in batteries is prohibitively expensive with current technology.

The wearable device shows considerable promise for meeting the demands of a wide range of defence and security scenarios.

Detection of pulsars could provide scientists more insights into the particles in the space between galaxies.

Fossils dismissed in the 1970s as a common species have now been identified as a new kind of ichthyosaur. Researchers made the discovery after exposing evidence of fakery.

It only takes a few decades for the supervolcano beneath Yellowstone National Park to fill with magma. When it erupts, it could cover much of the US in ash.