Sometimes people find a fuzzy little ball of fibers in their navel. Some refer to this as belly button lint, while others call it belly button fluff, navel lint, or navel fluff. In a 2012 study at ...

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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 ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Near the turn of this century, scientist Georg Steinhauser had a problem. He was fascinated by the question: Why do some belly buttons collect more ...

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 ...