The best American science and nature writing, 2015 / edited and with an introduction by Rebecca Skloot ; Tim Folger, series editor.

Foreword / by Tim Folger -- Introduction / by Rebecca Skloot -- Waiting for light / Jake Abrahamson -- In deep / Burkhard Bilger -- A question of corvids / Sheila Webster Boneham -- The health effects of a world without darkness / Rebecca Boyle -- Spotted hyena / Alison Hawthorne Deming -- Life, death, and grim routine fill the day at a Liberian ebola clinic / Sheri Fink -- No risky chances / Atul Gawande -- Linux for lettuce / Lisa M. Hamilton -- Down by the river / Rowan Jacobsen -- The empathy exams : a medical actor writes her own script / Leslie Jamison -- The deepest dig / Brooke Jarvis -- Phineas Gage, neuroscience's most famous patient / Sam Kean -- At risk / Jourdan Imani Keith -- Desegregating wilderness / Jourdan Imani Keith -- Into the maelstrom / Eli Kintisch -- The big kill / Elizabeth Kolbert -- Digging through the world's oldest graveyard / Amy Maxmen -- One of a kind / Seth Mnookin -- A pioneer as elusive as his particle / Dennis Overbye -- Blood in the sand / Matthew Power -- Chasing Bayla / Sarah Schweitzer -- Partial recall / Michael Specter -- The city and the sea / Meera Subramanian -- Curious / Kim Todd -- The aftershocks / David Wolman -- From billions to none / Barry Yeoman.