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Shaving is costly and uncomfortable, and almost everyone who can grow a beard looks better with one. This was my (admittedly rather one-sided) view when I…

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…

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…

Two years ago, I traded the routine of a fixed desk for a rotating cast of airport gates, train stations, and cafe tables. As a freelance…

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…

Life is full of mysteries: What is dark matter? What happened to DB Cooper? And the most perplexing to me personally: how tall should pillows be?I…

The Filter is turning one. Since we launched a year ago, we’ve run, hiked, camped and swum; we’ve drunk 455 cups of coffee; washed 34 loads…

When the weather turns colder, we all crave a little comfort. For some, that’s a cosier bed, complete with a new memory foam mattress topper, or…

‘Without a doubt, we get shorter as we age,” says Adam Taylor, professor in Anatomy at Lancaster medical school. He says that after 40, humans typically…