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As swimming season heats up, you might notice your fingers wrinkle after spending time in the water—turns out, those wrinkles are the same with every dip you take. And that, researchers from ...

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Maybe you're someone who enjoys spending so much time in the sea, a swimming pool, or even a bathtub that you turn pruney. Why not? You deserve some fun. But if you notice your fingers are wrinkly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A person holds their fingers in the water of the swimming pool in the outdoor area of the Gropiusstadt combined swimming pool in ...

“A student asked, ‘Yeah, but do the wrinkles always form in the same way?’ And I thought: I haven’t the foggiest clue!” Reading time 2 minutes Pruney fingers and toes after a long time in the pool or ...

In an earlier piece I wrote here at Psychology Today — a piece that has received more than 200,000 hits — I hinted at my research on why we get pruney fingers when wet. I also somehow managed to ...

Why fingers shrivel up in water is an age-old question that every child asks at bath time, but the answer may come as a surprise. “The whole body doesn’t wrinkle, and that says a lot,” said Einar ...