The twenty-eight pieces in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007 span a wide range of topics, from the farthest reaches of space to the everyday world around us to the secrets hiddin in our own bodies. Michael Lemonick travels to an extinct volcano in Hawaii, where telescopes at the summit are providing researchers with a glimpse of the most distant galaxy ever seen - and profound new insights into the creation of the universe. Neil deGrasse Tyson takes a sharp, witty look at Americans" delirium over space travel. And with surgical precision Michael Perry describes how a medical autopsy is performed. Dead men can tell tales. Here we also see examinations of the sometimes harmful impact of science on the natural world. Susan Casey gives an alarming portrait of plastic waste pollution in the world"s oceans, including a dead zone in the mid-Pacific that"s twice the size of Texas. Michael Shnayerson heads to West Virginia, where the Appalachians are being blasted at the...