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 ...

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 ...

Several things can cause a belly button itch, from allergic reactions to insect bites. While some causes may clear up on their own, others require professional treatment. Also known as atopic ...

Look in your belly button at the end of the day, and you might find a loosely packed tuft of soft lint. For many people, belly button lint is a normal fact of life. it all has to do with stomach hair ...

The average man is home to 1.8 mg of belly button fluff at any one time, and it’s almost always blue. What is this mysterious substance, and why does it gather there? Inspired by literal navel gazing, ...

If piercing a bellybutton makes you or the parental units wince, check out a safer -- and flashier -- alternative. A new product called Belly Lightsfeatures a tiny battery-operated strobe that emits a ...

Everyone has a belly button. It’s the small fold of skin that formed in your abdomen after the umbilical cord was clipped at birth. Belly buttons can be concave (innies) or convex (outies). ‌ Most of ...

While your eyelashes are protecting your eyes, your lungs are letting you breathe, and virtually every other part of your body—inside and out—is performing its own relatively well-known task, your ...