Welcome to the new year! I hope that you enjoyed your new year celebrations and are ready for another 365 days!
A team at MIT has recently developed a camera that can capture frames (actually, individual lines of a scene) at 1 trillion captures per second. That speed allows us to see the movement of photos on a macroscopic scale and gives hints towards other future technologies.
In other science news, the LHC has released some preliminary details on the search for the Higgs Boson (the particle which is predicted to give other particles mass by sticking to them and being slowed down by the (also proposed) Higgs Field. However, this news is only certain to a degree of 2.4 to 3.6 standard deviations (sigma). That means that the spike of activity from the particle collisions is not rare enough at that energy (125 GeV, billion electron volts) to warrant a discovery. For that you need something in the range of 5 sigma (or a million times less likely), which the LHC hopes to obtain in the coming year.
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