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Grab your learning caps, we’re going on a science learning adventure:

The explosion of stingers released when a jellyfish brushes against its victim has been captured for the first time on film – and the footage shows what may be the fastest cellular process in nature.

To view the action, researchers had to use the most rapid camera available. It takes 1.4 million frames per second and was designed to capture the flight of speeding bullets. [...]

When the tentacle touches its prey the lid of the nematocyst flips open, triggering the folded collagen spring to release outwards. This ejects a sharp spine, known as a stylet. The stylet pierces the external barrier of the prey with a pressure of more than 7 billion Pascals – in the range of that generated by a bullet fired from a gun.

1.4 million frames per second?! I wonder if Nikon is planning on developing a consumer level camera with similar features?