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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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 ...

Exactly what you think it is. Just don’t dig too hard to clean it out. Poor Georg Steinhauser. A professor of ecology and radiation studies at Leibniz University in Germany, Steinhauser would love to ...