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Wrinkled Fingers Are Not Slippery When Wet Volunteers were more adept at handling wet objects when their fingertips had gotten waterlogged to the point of being wrinkled than when their fingers were dry. Karen Hopkin reports After a long bath, your fingers and toes come out all wrinkly. You may have wondered why your skin would go and do such a thing. Now a study shows that puckered digits give us a surer hold on objects that are slippery when wet. This gripping discovery appears in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters. [Kyriacos Kareklas, Daniel Nettle and Tom V. Smulders, Water-induc