From furrowed brows to mountain-forming ripples in Earth’s crust, wrinkles are ubiquitous. To better understand these widespread phenomena (SN: 6/15/96, p. 376), scientists would like to predict certain topographical properties of wrinkles, such as the heights of their folds and how close together those folds lie.
RUMPLED DOG SKIN. A new theory predicts how materials, like the skin of this shar-pei, crumple up.
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