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Juana Molina answers our video call from a hospital bed, reclining in a green T-shirt with two cannulas in her hand. She has done her back…

Why aren’t more animals hermaphrodites? Snails and worms seem to have been successful using that method for sharing genes between any two individuals, but vertebrates evolved…

I’ve had more good sex than most people have had hot dinners, so when I found a lump in my breast and knew straight away it…

For many college students, connecting their interests to career and life goals can be a challenge. Transfer students may find it especially difficult because they lack…

If the sitting Marquess of Londonderry died tomorrow, and in so doing bestowed a ladyhood on his 15-year-old granddaughter, would you ever know? Would you be…

Bookworms may still cherish the feel of leafing through pages, the whiff of new-book smell, and stacking their shelves with beloved tomes, but nothing beats an…

Our expert Filter writers have spent the past year at your service: putting mattresses, coffee machines, secateurs, low-alcohol drinks, hair masks, sleep aids and more through…

A couple of years ago, I began investigating non-fatal overdoses.Coverage of the US’s opioid crisis has largely focused on lives lost. But through my cousin Mason,…

You don’t have to live in the American deep south to feel the effects of humidity. At home, just breathing makes the air more humid, let…

I have just got back from a run. I am shocked to write those words. I think it might have been a decade since my last.…