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 ...

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.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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