Sam Kean

Sam Kean is the author of seven science books, including Dinner With King Tut, The Disappearing Spoon and The Icepick Surgeon.

God on the Syllabus

A century after Bryan took on Darrow, battles over public school curricula rage on

By Sam Kean | Tuesday September 2, 2025

All Talk

Ease of communication will not save us

By Sam Kean | Thursday January 30, 2025

We Are the Borg

Is the convergence of human and machine really upon us?

By Sam Kean | Friday August 16, 2024

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

Things Periodic and Elemental

By Sam Kean | Monday June 24, 2013

Master Masticator

By Sam Kean | Monday June 24, 2013

Science, Right and Wrong

By Sam Kean | Monday June 3, 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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