With the continual drive towards bigger, better, and brighter light sources, whole new areas of scientific research are possible that would have been unimaginable or even were believed impossible before. For example, imaging of single bioparticles has been demonstrated at Free Electron Lasers (FELs) [1], and synchrotron beamlines can now be used to study real-time changes in samples on a timescale of milliseconds. Copyright Taylor & Francis.