Are you cleaning your headphones and earbuds enough? I don't mean using your fingernail to pick out wax buildup in your earbuds' eartips, but actually cleaning them? Cleaning your headphones and ...

Many of us grew up thinking that using cotton buds was the best way to clean our ears. After all, it feels good to clear out earwax, and using a cotton bud seems easy. But what if we told you that ...

Filthy buds look bad, impact sound quality, and even risk infection. WIRED asked the experts how to correctly banish that ear gunk. But are my yellowing Airpods actually a risk to my health? I asked ...

How's this for an unsettling fact? According to cleaning expert Lana Tkachenko, your earbuds can contain way more bacteria than your kitchen sink, one of the germiest places in a home. But while your ...

Everyone has dirty ears; the human ear is designed to produce earwax to protect itself from other junk getting in there, among other things. That means that the more you put your precious new AirPods ...

Let’s be honest—most of us don’t clean our earbuds until they look really gross. But did you know that earbuds can harbor more bacteria than a kitchen cutting board? Yup, that close-to-your-eardrum ...

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