The best American science writing 2003
(Book)

Includes bibliographical references. The forest primeval / Peter Canby -- 1491 / Charles C. Mann -- The learning curve / Atul Gawande -- A world of their own / Liza Mundy -- The melody lingers on / Floyd Skloot -- The world's numerical recipe / Frank Wilczek -- Emergent realities in the cosmos / Marcelo Gleiser -- Scientists reach out to distant worlds / Natalie Angier -- Here there be dragons / Margaret Wertheim -- Notes from a parallel universe / Jennifer Kahn -- Shadow creatures / Michelle Nijhuis -- You dirty vole / Gunjan Sinha -- Stalking the American lobster / Trevor Corson -- Fighting chance / Siddhartha Mukherjee -- The big bloom / Michael Klesius -- Why turn red? / Susan Milius -- The mosquito's buzz / Thomas Eisner -- Got silk / Lawrence Osborne -- Disorders made to order / Brendan I. Kãirner -- An embarrassment of chimpanzees / Joseph D'Agnese -- Common ground / Danielle Ofri -- Why buy that theory? / Roald Hoffmann -- Big trouble in the world of "Big Physics / Leonard Cassuto -- Hawking's breakthrough is still an enigma / Dennis Overbye -- Stephen Jay Gould: what dãis it mean to be a radical? / Richard C. Lewontin and Richard Levins.