Two major Japanese universities have unveiled a camera that's 1,000 times faster than existing high-speed cameras. With a multitude of applications in both the public and private sector, it can capture images that are basically impossible to visualize in a single shot, such as chemical reactions.

Developed by the University of Tokyo and Keio University, the world's fastest camera uses new technology called Sequentially Timed All-optical Mapping Photography, or STAMP, which was introduced in Nature Photonics' online edition...