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January-February 2009 Volume 97, Number 1

Colorful lights and clouds of steam make for an interesting predawn image of a coal-fired power plant in Point of Rocks, Wyoming, but it's really a picture of wasted energy. ...

FEATURE ARTICLES

Getting the Most from Energy *

Thomas R. Casten, Phillip F. Schewe

Recycling waste heat can keep carbon from going sky high

Healing Heat: Harnessing Infection to Fight Cancer

Uwe Hobohm

Modern immunology plus historic experiments suggest a better way to gear up the human immune system to battle malignant disease

Kashmir Valley Megaearthquakes *

Susan Hough, Roger Bilham, Ismail Bhat

Estimates of the magnitudes of past seismic events foretell a very shaky future for this pastoral valley

The Bones of Copernicus *

Dennis Danielson

Twenty-first-century cosmologists, historians and archaeologists continue to seek a true portrait of the great astronomer and his contribution

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SCIENTISTS’ BOOKSHELF

A review of Solving Stonehenge: The New Key to an Ancient Enigma, by Anthony Johnson. Johnson argues that the builders of Stonehenge had an understanding of the geometry of squares and circles that allowed them to lay out the different elements of the stone monument with impressively regular proportionality

See all book reviews for this issue.