The Dark Side of Science.
A little step sideways from small-angle scattering for this week’s post. As you are probably aware by now, I sometimes use the LaN weblog to […]
Blog posts
Error estimation using Fourier Transforms
Estimating uncertainties on data values has always been an important and under-emphasized part of small-angle scattering. Uncertainties are critical to your data: they tell you […]
Moving LaN update day to Tuesday
Today is another holiday in Japan. There is a tendency here for the national holidays to be on Mondays or Fridays, and there is typically […]
Looking at Nothing, Seeing a Lot.
Today is a day of relief for Dr. Julian Stirling and his eight co-authors (with many looking forward to the response, including Raphaël Lévy). The […]
Interesting stuff coming later today
Waiting for San Francisco to wake up on their Monday and release the good stuff with chewy centres. Please come back later today It’s up […]
Spending money on Bonse Hart Bling-Bling
[ed1: Progress on the Everything SAXS book has been good: a framework is now in place with chapters, the revision ID on the title page […]
So there is an “Everything SAXS”-book, and it is empty!
For a while now, I have wanted to write a book about SAXS, introducing the topics, explaining the details, and including many of the more […]
Spheres, rods, discs, which can fit what?
A remark in a recent paper by Dr. Yojiro Oba (currently at KURRI) caught my attention. It discusses which shape assumption can be appropriate to […]
Contrast-variation SAXS
Contrast variation is commonly used in SANS to highlight a single segment of a mutli-part structure. In SANS it is easy to do this because […]
Tele-SAXS Beamtime with on-the-fly data corrections.
This has been a very interesting last couple of days. I was unable to join Zoë Schnepp and Martin Hollamby for our SAXS beamtime at […]