Snot, you perplexing green goop, you smell-stopping slime that oozes forth from my face, what secrets do you hide? What message, O poor sick body, who do you telegraph me through this globby gak? As ...

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Snot is your body's best defense mechanism, a sticky moat of protection against invading bacteria, viruses, and fungi. When it comes to where your body is open to the outside world, snot (more ...

Snot is not generally a topic people dwell on or around, but according to Carroll County Public Library Associate Brenda Proper, that mucky mucus is important goop. “[Mucus is] our body’s defense ...

In hunting down delicious fish, Flipper may have a secret weapon: snot. Dolphins emit a series of quick, high-frequency sounds — probably by forcing air over tissues in the nasal passage — to find and ...

Divers who have seen the phenomenon firsthand describe many types of underwater sea snot. There are the “stringers,” which most resemble the sticky goo that might actually come out of your nose. But ...

A type of freshwater algae, known as "rock snot," that infiltrates river bottoms and clumps on rocks is not an invasive species introduced into waterways by humans, a new study finds. The organism has ...

Can festival favourite Mr Snotbottom stop an army of barbaric boogies and monster mucus from suffocating the planet with foul phlegm? What is mucus? Why do we sneeze? What happens when you eat your ...

If you've got a cold, there's a good chance you've got snot dripping from your nose. And if you honk your nose into a tissue, it will probably fill up with slime-green goo. What's up with that?