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 ...

As an exercise in scientific navel-gazing, Georg Steinhauser’s experiment takes some beating. Starting in 2005, Steinhauser – then a chemist at the Vienna University of Technology – collected pieces ...

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 ...

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 ...

Karl Kruszelnicki of the University of Sydney surveyed more than 4,500 people and determined that “you’re more likely to have BBL [belly-button lint] if you’re male, older, hairy, and have an innie.” ...

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 ...

An Australian man has been recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records for collecting 22.1g of his own belly button fluff. Graham Barker, 45, from Perth, saved the lint over a 26-year-period and ...

It’s a great day in the South — the sun is shining and the temperature is 75 degrees and I find myself in a reflective mood. I remember reading in the Bible a statement to the effect that someday in ...

Must be another edition of... Our Friend, Science An Austrian scientist says he's solved the mystery of belly button fluff. After studying 503 pieces of navel fluff from his own belly button in a ...