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  1. Weird Life: The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own by David Toomey

    Organisms in extreme environments — from bacteria deep under the ocean floor to imagined creatures on distant moons — challenge definitions of life. W.W. Norton & Co., 2013, 268 p., $25.95

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  2. Particle Physics

    Heart of Darkness

    Unraveling the Mysteries of the Invisible Universe (Science Essentials) by Jeremiah P. Ostriker and Simon Mitton.

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  3. Tech

    Frankenstein’s Cat

    Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts by Emily Anthes.

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  4. Ginkgo: The Tree That Time Forgot by Peter Crane

    An ancient tree lineage has survived and made its way into humans’ lives through medicine, art and as a popular street tree, yet is now endangered in the wild. Yale Univ., 2013, 384 p., $40

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  5. Red Rover: Inside the Story of Robotic Space Exploration, from Genesis to the Mars Rover Curiosity by Roger Wiens

    The scientist in charge of Curiosity’s ChemCam instrument gives a behind-the-scenes tour of the Mars robot. Basic Books, 2013, 233 p., $25.99

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  6. Planetary Science

    Faint Young Sun

    Scientists struggle to understand how early Earth stayed warm enough for liquid water.

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  7. Animals

    A Different Kind of Smart

    Animals’ cognitive shortcomings are as revealing as their genius.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    The Human Brainome Project

    Obama announces ambitious plan to develop new tools for exploring neural circuitry.

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  9. Life

    Bats are 3-D cartographers

    Special cells in the mammal’s brain chart its path as it flies.

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  10. Life

    Infants, whether mice or human, love to be carried

    Being toted around calms and quiets babies of both species.

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  11. Microbes

    Some like it acidic

    In a higher-carbon world of altered oceans, a shelled plankton species may flourish.

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  12. Life

    Coelacanth is not closest fishy relative of terrestrial animals

    Genes of “living fossil” do reveal changes needed to live on dry land.

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