Sam Kean

Sam Kean is the author of six science books, including The Disappearing Spoon and The Icepick Surgeon.

Thought Experimenter

Will AI really make our world better?

By Sam Kean | Monday April 1, 2024

Don’t Forget Intuition

The art of doing science

By Sam Kean | Thursday June 1, 2023

Subatomic Inspiration

The enigmatic thinker behind the Large Hadron Collider

By Sam Kean | Wednesday June 1, 2022

Order Amid Chaos

A poet-scientist considers the imponderables of existence

By Sam Kean | Monday February 15, 2021
Kean: Galileo on trail at the Inquisition

Heaven and the Heretic

A brilliant scientist whose life is a cautionary tale

By Sam Kean | Monday March 2, 2020

An Even Greater Beyond

Will technology bring us eternal life?

By Sam Kean | Thursday February 22, 2018

Sisters of the Night Sky

The pioneering female scientists who first charted the universe

By Sam Kean | Monday December 5, 2016

It Takes a Laboratory

Science is no longer the domain of solitary experimenters

By Sam Kean | Monday June 8, 2015

Locks for Lettuces

By Sam Kean | Wednesday October 9, 2013

Smarter Than Dirt

By Sam Kean | Wednesday October 9, 2013

A Shroud of Doubt

By Sam Kean | Thursday March 21, 2013

Being Human

By Sam Kean | Monday March 18, 2013

Bon Appétit

By Sam Kean | Thursday March 14, 2013

Leaf It to a Physicist

By Sam Kean | Thursday March 14, 2013

Fields Apart

By Sam Kean | Wednesday November 30, 2011

Math & Magic

By Sam Kean | Wednesday March 2, 2011

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