MIT Media Lab researchers have created a new imaging system that can acquire visual data at a rate of one trillion frames per second. That's fast enough to produce a slow-motion video of light traveling through objects. Read more: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/trillion-fps-camera-1213.html

Project website: http://www.media.mit.edu/~raskar/trillionfps/

Video: Melanie Gonick