NO AUDIO In Pasadena California at California Institute of Technology, a 28 year old graduate student, David James, discovers a rare kind of "elastic water". It flows from a container with a siphon-like action, defying gravity, climbing the side of the jar and over the lip. It can ever be cut with scissors! Exterior of California Tech. Grad student David James holds a beaker and measures out some grainy substance. CU scooping substance into a beaker. He adds water to the breaker and mixes it. He moves the substance from one beaker to another. The liquid now when poured is a gel substance. CU to stop the liquid he s pouring, he cuts it with a pair of scissors. He plays with the jelly substance, no gloves, just amazement on his face. MCU liquid slime.