The Best American Science Writing 2003 covers the full range of scientific inquiry - from biochemistry, physics, and astronomy, to genetics, evolutionary theory, and cognition. It features articles from a wide variety of publications and provides a comprehensive overview of the year's most thought-provoking scientific developments.

The bestselling author of Infinite Jest on the two-thousand-year-old quest to understand infinity. Wallace's tour de force brings immediate and high-profile recognition to the bizarre and fascinating world of higher mathematics.

Stylish [and] stunningly accurate prose. We learn what the material world is like from the smallest quark to the largest galaxy and at all the levels in between . . . brims with strange and amazing facts . . . destined to become a modern classic of science writing. -The New York Times

From the description of the first fossil link between humans and apes in 1925 to the identification of the first planet outside our solar system in 1995, many of the most important scientific discoveries of the twentieth century were first reported in the journal Nature. A Century of Nature brings together in one volume the greatest hits of the premier science journal in the English language.

Esteemed historian of science Galison has culled new information from photos and unexplored archives to tell the fascinating story of two scientists whose concrete, professional preoccupations engaged them in a silent race toward a theory that would conquer the empire of time.