Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You look down at your belly button only to find what looks like dryer lint. What is it? But, more importantly, how do you avoid it ...

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 ...

You have probably noticed it at some point: a small clump of fluff sitting in your belly button. It is not that it looks like much damage, as most people shrug and ignore it. However, have you ever ...

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 ...

Daily, if not twice daily, I sit around and preform omphaloskepsis, defined as n : contemplation of one's navel. For me that usually involves a pinky IN my navel. And I usually pull out this light or ...

Some people have belly buttons devoid of fluff – while others must clean lint out of theirs every day. Jason G Goldman discovers why the fuzz is strong with some… There are two crucial things you need ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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