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 ...

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 ...

A humorous yet scientific study explored the formation of navel fluff, revealing abdominal hair's role in collecting clothing fibers. Over several years, a scientist collected and analyzed his own ...

After three years of research, chemist Georg Steinhauser has discovered a type of body hair that traps stray pieces of lint and draws them into the navel. He made his discovery after studying 503 ...

Navel fluff, also known as belly-button lint, is one of those small everyday mysteries that we often come across but hardly ever think about. How come it accumulates in the navel? Why is it that we ...