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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Exactly what you think it is. Just don’t dig too hard to clean it out. Poor Georg Steinhauser. A professor of ecology and ...

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 ...