The new science journalists / [Diane Ackerman and others] ; edited by Ted Anton and Rick McCourt.

Subtitle on cover

New York : Ballantine Books, 1995.

340 pages ; 21 cm

1st ed.

A collection of articles and book excerpts originally published 1986-1994

The interpreter / Timothy Ferris -- Busy as a bee? Then who's doing the work? / Natalie Angier -- How to get ahead in science? Simple / Jim Kelly -- The man who loves only numbers / Paul Hoffman -- Cancer's bad seeds / Shannon Brownlee -- The wager / Gary Taubes -- E-mail from Bill / John Seabrook -- The monkey wars / Deborah Blum -- In search of genius / James Gleick -- Dreaming of disconnecting a respirator / Elissa Ely -- Hubble error : time, money and millionths of an inch / Robert S. Capers and Eric Lipton -- Why leaves turn color in the fall / Diane Ackerman -- When bugs fight back / Mike Toner -- The endless good-bye / Dennis Overbye -- Bats / Charles Bowden -- The forgotten female / Elisabeth Rosenthal -- Fraud in breast cancer study / John Crewdson -- Is humanity suicidal? / Edward O. Wilson.