You have probably noticed it at some point: a small clump of fluff sitting in your belly button. It is not that it looks like ...

A professor of ecology and radiation studies at Leibniz University in Germany, Steinhauser would love to talk about the important environmental research his team is conducting. But back in 2009, he ...

As much as science has come to understand the human body, it’s still full of mysteries. How do our brains generate consciousness? Why do our immune systems, as complex as they are, not realize that we ...

Belly buttons are most people's first scars, which form when doctors cut their umbilical cord after birth. Most innies are full of dozens of kinds of bacteria, fungi, and lint - especially if they're ...

Quick: When was the last time you cleaned your belly button, a.k.a. your navel, a.k.a., that spot where you were once connected to your mother through an umbilical cord? I'm gonna guess not since your ...

Finally, someone has found the answer to one of life's nagging questions: Why is all this stuff in my belly button? A chemist in Vienna, Austria spent years studying the lint that collects in a person ...

Is your belly button basically a tiny armpit? What's actually in belly button lint? How does it even get there? Do you need to worry about it? Glad you asked, because there’s a remarkable amount of ...

Men and women are different. I know. You're all, we knew that already. Because of the whole stand-up-vs.-sit-down thing. But I'm not talking about physical differences. I am talking about differences ...

A chemist who has researched belly button fluff for three years believes that it collects because of tiny hairs which have "barbed hooks". Georg Steinhauser claimed that the body hair traps stray ...

I don't like to pat myself on the back, y'all, but sometimes I find myself in the position to effect social change and, I'll admit, it feels pretty good. Last week, I was fortunate enough to be the ...

A professor of ecology and radiation studies at Leibniz University in Germany, Steinhauser would love to talk about the important environmental research his team is conducting. But back in 2009, he ...