What fears keep scientists awake at night? We’ll find out with bestselling and highly acclaimed science writer Richard Preston. His new collection of true stories from the worlds of nature and scientific effort is “Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science” (Random House, 2008).

From the archives: We often think of ourselves as the pinnacle of life on the planet. But the largest and tallest living organisms are very different from us. They’re the magnificent coastal redwoods of Northern California. Author Richard Preston was our guest in May. He profiles the trees, their explorers and the lost ecosystems they […]

We often think of ourselves as the pinnacle of life on the planet. But the largest and tallest living organisms are very different from us. They’re the magnificent coastal redwoods of Northern California. We’ll spend this hour with bestselling author Richard Preston, who profiles the trees, their explorers and the lost ecosystems they inhabit and […]