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Amazon Echo Studio review
Firm's first high-end speaker gets the thumbs up from us
Asus VivoBook S15 S532 review
A great mid-ranger let down by a sub-par screen and middling battery
Apple Watch 5 review
Cupertino remains king of the wearables market
Oppo Reno2 review
Watch your back, Huawei
EE 5G vs Vodafone 5G head-to-head review
We tested both next-gen networks at six locations across central London
Best Bluetooth earphones 2019
INQ's pick of the best earphones on the market right now
Huawei Mate 20 Pro vs Google Pixel 3 XL review
We pit the two best camera-wielding smartphones head to head
Astronomers find several pairs of galaxies merging together into single, larger galaxies
First time ever astronomers have spied galaxies in the final stages of merging together
Parker Solar Probe alive and well after skimming Sun just 15 million miles from surface
Parker Solar Probe breaks its own record for flying close to the Sun
Researchers create IoT devices that don't need batteries or require charging
Scientists hack together battery-free IoT devices by hacking RFID tags
AMD unveils 7nm Zen 2 microarchitecture for its future family of processors
Represents a significant step in the architecture's timeline
Impact of asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was so strong it caused rocks to flow like liquid, claim scientists
Vibrations from impact of asteroid 66 million years ago caused rocks to turn molten
Scientists to create 'truly unhackable' network based on quantum physics
Could have wide-ranging impact on communications, computing and national security
Astronomers produce best effort yet for measuring the universe's 'quenching' timescale
Researchers claim to have measured more than 70 per cent of the history of the Universe
Internet could be speeded up by 100 times with nanophotonic technology
Twisted light beams could carry more data and process it faster, claim RMIT scientists
Astronomers uncover binary pair of stars that complete orbit around each other in three hours
Researchers believe the stars could drive a nova explosion
Oxygen could exist on Mars, claim researchers
Oxygen levels could even theoretically exceed the threshold needed to support simple aerobic life
'Very accurate' understanding of Universe's expansion will take scientists 5-10 years to calculate
Are pinning down the exact rate of expansion of the Hubble constant
Chinese city's plan to launch artificial moons to replace street lights panned
Engineer calculates that Chengdu's plan to replace streetlights with artificial moonlight would cost $100bn
Scientists claim to prove the true benefits of quantum computing for the first time
IBM and Technical University of Munich team demonstrate how Shor's algorithm, which can't be cracked by conventional computers, can be solved quickly with quantum computing
Hubble Space Telescope finds superflares from young red dwarfs could strip away planetary atmosphere
Younger stars are 100 to 1,000 times more energetic than when they're older
Carbon fibres could work as battery electrodes in cars and planes, claim researchers
Research opens up new possibilities for structural batteries, where the carbon fibre forms part of the energy system
Researchers confirm shape of an electron's charge is perfectly spherical
Another shape could have indicated hard-to-detect particles
Astronomers shed light on why some black holes appear active and others dormant
Latest SOFIA data indicates that magnetic fields may be responsible
Astronomers uncover titanic structure in the early Universe
A mere two billion years after the Big Bang
Researchers build human brain-mimicking 'reservoir computing' device
Reservoir computing can achieve the higher-dimension calculations required by emerging AI
Astronomers link gravitational wave sources from first-ever sighting of merger of two neutron stars
Astronomers studying first-ever reported merger of two neutron stars claim to have detect light and gravitational waves
Bodies of water stored in glaciers could contribute to sea level rise, scientists claim
Stanford researchers made the discovery via data from Greenland
Korean researchers develop transparent nanoforce touch sensor for future wearables
Created via a thin, flexible, and transparent hierarchical nanocomposite film
Scientists uncover young star with four Jupiter and Saturn-sized planets orbiting around it
The most extreme range of orbits yet observed in such a young star system, claim University of Cambridge astronomers
Arctic Ocean's blanket of sea ice is now mostly younger, thinner ice - NASA
New ice grows faster but is also more vulnerable to weather and wind
MIT engineers create material that reacts with CO2 to grow, strengthen and repair itself
New material uses carbon dioxide from the air to repair and reinforce itself
Astronomers solve chemical mystery at the centre of the Milky Way
Apparent presence of scandium, vanadium and yttrium less than three light years from black hole 'an optical illusion'
NASA scientists gain better understanding of pulsars
Revealing behaviours that may help explain how spinning neutron stars - pulsars - emit gamma-ray and radio pulses
MIT researchers develop new fusion power plant design that can deal with excess heat
Dealing with excess heat is essential to prevent fusion reactors from meltdown
NASA engineers working to repair Hubble after gyroscope failure
Hubble Telescope put into 'safe mode' on Friday following the failure of the gyroscope
MIT engineers develop technique for ultra-thin semiconducting films not made from silicon
Technique will provide a cost-effective method to fabricate flexible, wearable electronics
Global sea-levels could rise more than two metres by 2100, scientists warn
By 2300, sea levels could have risen by more than four metres
UK researchers claim 1670 Nova Vulpeculae was a white dwarf and a brown dwarf star colliding
Mystery over a 'blaze of glory' witnessed from Earth more than 300 years ago now solved
NASA's Voyager 2 probe detects increase in cosmic rays as it approaches the heliosphere
Voyager 2, launched in 1977, will soon find out what the Solar System is like in, and beyond, the heliosphere
Saturn's rings are raining a chemical cocktail down onto the Solar System's second biggest planet
Data from the final orbits of NASA's Cassini spacecraft uncover unexpected details about Saturn's rings
Astronomers uncover moon orbiting a gas-giant planet 8,000 light-years away
Newly discovered moon unusual because of its large size - comparable to diameter of Neptune
Black holes account for no more than 40 per cent of dark matter, claim UCL scientists
Statistical analysis of 740 of the brightest supernovas discovered since 2014 suggests scientists will need to look elsewhere for dark matter
Particle accelerators could turn the Earth into a 'hyperdense sphere' measuring just 100 metres wide
If particle research went wrong we could create a black hole, crush the Earth or rip the fabric of space. So no pressure
Researchers detect particles in Antarctica that do not fit the Standard Model
Detected by a sensor attached to a high-altitude balloon hovering over Antarctica
Arctic sea ice extent sixth lowest on record for 2018
Lowest summer time minimum since 2010, NASA satellites suggest
University of Central Florida is selling Martian dirt at $20 a kilo
Plus shipping, of course
Amazon CEO's space startup Blue Origin wins contract to supply engines for ULA rocket
The BE-4 engine Will power ULA's Vulcan rocket