High speed photography

The Phantom high-speed cameras used by YouTube channels like The Slow Mo Guys to capture mesmerizing slow-motion…

There's a truly monstrous camera at the "Churchill's Scientists" exhibition at London's Science Museum right now.…

When the Nikon D200 came out in 2005, it was a big hit. (At the time, Gizmodo said it was "pretty rawkin.") But…

Using a slight variation on the famous high-speed camera set-up by Doc Edgerton, the Edgerton Center at MIT shot a…

Talk about an ethereal subject. Pure smoke is about as intangible and unpredictable as anything you could think of…

Dutch photographer Alexander Augusteijn uses a high-speed camera to capture the instant after a bullet slices a drop…

Herra Kuulapaa loves to take high-speed photos of firing guns, moved by a desire to see the unseen. His precise…

Oil and water don't mix. It's an idiom that feels as old as time. But photographer Alberto Seveso found a way to get…

This is not my first attempt at making a blown glass sculpture, although I'm pretty sure the results of that…

Every once in a while, especially on a Monday, you have to visit Alan Sailer's Flickr stream. He's the master of…

A human's blink lasts 300-400 milliseconds. The photos you'll take for this week's Shooting Challenge are way faster…

Thanks to high-speed photography, Edward Horsford's pin-pricking of balloons have been caught in a dazzling series…

Click to viewFor the last several years, four professors from prestigious institutions have been looking for the…

For some reason I expected a bit more explosion (thanks, Hollywood!), but these high speed photography shots…

What do you do if you are a retired electronic and mechanical engineer with 41 years of experience, and a passion…

Overheard in a recent Discovery Channel producer's meeting: "Hey—here's a crazy idea: you know how videos of things…

Scientist at Caltech have discovered why oh why one of the most basic artifacts on earth, the looming swatter, fails…