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Glitches in time

A mathematical technique has now been developed that reveals the underlying dynamics of time-dependent data collected with extreme temporal uncertainty, without using additional, costly instrumentation. See Letter p.471

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Figure 1: A mathematical process for analysing space-time data.

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