You probably need access to see all the super cool stuff, but basically a group designed a camera with enough temporal resolution (10^11 frames per second) to watch light do stuff like reflect, refract, travel through different media, and they even captured fluorescence.
Take out a crazed gunman in a parliament building, appointed ambassador to Ireland. I'd say that's pretty cool.
Kevin Vickers, the House of Commons sergeant-at-arms who became a household name in October after his confrontation with a gunman in the hallway on Parliament Hill, will be Canada's next ambassador to Ireland.