Scientists have created a blazing-fast scientific camera that shoots images at an encoding rate of 156.3 terahertz (THz) to individual pixels — equivalent to 156.3 trillion frames per second. Dubbed ...

Cameras are very complex pieces of technology, especially when you are talking about the ones on the higher-end or the ones that are used to shoot Hollywood blockbuster films. While all of the cameras ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

A team of researchers has decided to answer that question by creating a new scientific camera called SCARF, which stands for Swept-Coded Aperture Real-time Femtophotography. The creation of this ...

When scientists at Caltech wanted to be able to capture femtosecond pulses of laser light, they couldn't; grab an off the shelf camera and just snap away. The researchers had to create a new type of ...

Owen Gleiberman is the former film critic at Entertainment Weekly. He left EW in 2014. Now, though, we live in a tech-addict society. If you peek in on the debates at certain movie-geek websites about ...

Director Ang Lee has spent his career making movies with standout visuals that audiences have never seen before, whether it's fighting among the trees in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" or the 3-D ...

Researchers have developed what they call T-CUP: the world's fastest camera, capable of capturing ten trillion frames per second. This new camera literally makes it possible to freeze time to see ...

After years of capping video playback at 30 frames per second, it looks like YouTube is finally upping the bar. Back in June, YouTube announced that 60 FPS video playback was on the way in “the coming ...

Unless you’ve been hiding out in a hobbit-hole or held captive by a cave troll, you’re undoubtedly aware that director Peter Jackson’s long-awaited return to Middle-earth, The Hobbit: An Unexpected ...

The director tells THR that he would "personally favor" 60 fps as he urges the production and exhibition industries to adopt higher frame rates. By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor Even though Cameron ...