The best American science writing 2007 / editor: Gina Kolata ; series editor: Jesse Cohen.

New York ; London : Harper Perennial, [2007], ©2007.

xii, 333 pages ; 21 cm

"An Ecco book."

Introduction / Gina Kolata -- The theory of everything / Tyler Cabot -- Manifold destiny / Sylvia Nasar, David Gruber -- Looking for the lie / Robin Marantz Henig -- Face blind / Joshua Davis -- Stereo Sue / Oliver Sacks -- Probing a mind for a cure / Stacey Burling -- A depression switch? / David Dobbs -- With lasers and daring, doctors race to save a young man's brain / Denise Grady -- Being there / Jerome Groopman -- God or gorilla / Matthew Chapman -- The score / Atul Gawande -- Truth and consequences / Jennifer Couzin -- The man on the table was 97, but he devised the surgery / Lawrence K. Altman -- Butterfly lessons / Elizabeth Kolbert -- In ancient fossils, seeds of a new debate on warming / William J. Broad -- John Koza has built an invention machine / Jonathon Keats -- Mind games / John Cassidy -- Schweitzer's dangerous discovery / Barry Yeoman -- Cooking for eggheads / Patricia Gadsby -- Hollywood's science guru / Gregory Mone.