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Perhaps the most important thing we're doing is providing some encouragement that it's

worth imagining a different future.

And water droplets that look like they're breaking the laws of physics.

Initially, we were extremely surprised, but you know what?

You're being fooled. You know, there's a trick happening there.

Plus how to wrangle all the data streaming from our internet-enabled objects.

This is the Nature podcast for November 5, 2015.

I'm Kerry Smith.

And I'm Adam Levy.

Now, you get to see some strange stuff working at nature, and I'm not just talking about the news team first thing in the morning.

But Charmany Bundell claims to have seen something even weirder, evidence of water droplets that bounce by themselves.

Now, I'm sure there's got to be a sensible scientific explanation for this.

Either that or it's magic.

Well, I suppose it's definitely one of those two options, so to find out which, we asked Charmone to investigate.

She called up Thomas Jutsius of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,

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