Bestselling author and staff writer for The New Yorker Groopman edits this year's volume of the finest science and nature writing. Contributors include Walter Kirn, Ron Rosenbaum, Jeffrey Toobin, and Oliver Sacks.

Seven graduate students from Cambridge, Massachusetts, are invited to Hawaii by pioneering microbiology company Nanigen. There they will be given access to a new world of radical scientific developments. But they are walking into a death trap.