Researchers at Canada’s INRS research institute have developed a record-breaking camera system in terms of the number of frames it captures per second. Intended for scientific use, this new technology could already be of interest to many professionals.

What these researchers have succeeded in developing is a new ultrafast camera system capable of capturing up to 156.3 trillion frames per second. According to the scientists, this novel device, dubbed Scarf (swept-coded aperture real-time femtophotography), can capture “transient absorption in a semiconductor and ultrafast demagnetisation of a metal alloy”, as they explain in a news release.