LONDON: Doctors in Britain will for the first time use a robotic radiotherapy machine to treat cancer this week. The machine called Cyberknife is said to be worth 2.5 million pounds. It maps the movement of a patient’s breathing so that tumours can be targeted with greater accuracy than is currently possible. The novel device [...]
‘Fossil earthquakes’ abundant
Rocks formed only under the extreme heat and friction during earthquakes, called pseudotachylytes, may be more abundant than previously reported, according to new research focused on eight faults found in the Sierra Nevada. The research appears in the February issue of the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. Geologists have previously debated whether these [...]
