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Published online 20 June 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020617-6

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Bounce ballet on film

Drops kick waterproofs and sprays into touch.

It's the most eventful few milliseconds of a raindrop's life - a series of lightning-fast contortions followed by a spring into the air.

French researchers have captured the bouncing droplet's liquid ballet on film, and explained its physics.

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