“If you stretch Silly Putty for instance, it stretches horizontally, but it also shrinks in the other direction–it gets thinner. That’s what skin does as well,” he said.

Why do wrinkles form as we age? A new study has revealed that aging skin stretches more sideways under tension, causing it to buckle – like Silly Putty – into deeper, straighter wrinkles. And ...

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Researchers finally know why our skin wrinkles over time - and Silly Putty can help explain it. Scientists at New York’s Binghamton University say experimental evidence shows that it’s a ...