Sam Kean

How Will Language Change if Humans Travel the Stars?

Sam Kean

Aug 31, 2020 9:00 AM

A Bizarre 1970 Arctic Killing Offers a Road Map for How Not to Deal With Murder in Space

Sam Kean

July 15, 2020 5:45 AM

What Can We Learn About Farting From the World’s Most Famous Flatulence Artist?

Sam Kean

July 24, 2017 9:30 AM

Why Would I Write About Phineas Gage? A Slate Writer Explains the Story Behind His Story.

Jeff Friedrich and Sam Kean

May 08, 2014 3:09 PM

The True Story of Phineas Gage Is Much More Fascinating Than the Mythical Textbook Accounts

Sam Kean

May 06, 2014 11:32 PM

Farewell to One of the Most Important Amnesia Patients in the History of Memory Research

Sam Kean

April 06, 2014 11:47 PM

Is Junk DNA Really Junky? A Fish-Eating Plant Weighs In.

Sam Kean

Oct 03, 2013 8:31 AM

According to His DNA Sequence, James Watson Should Be Blind, Deaf, and Have a Tiny Head. Why Doesn’t He?

Sam Kean

July 27, 2012 8:30 AM

Did Lincoln Have Marfan Syndrome? Did Darwin Have Smoldering Hepatitis?

Sam Kean

July 26, 2012 6:01 AM

How Yam Farming Contributed to the Rise of Sickle-Cell Anemia

Sam Kean

July 25, 2012 6:00 AM

How a Daughter Inherited Her Mother’s Cancer

Sam Kean

July 24, 2012 6:00 AM

Why a Mother Can’t Give Cancer to Her Fetus—Usually

Sam Kean

July 23, 2012 6:00 AM

Chim-chim-cheroo: Why So Many London Chimney Sweeps Suffered Scrotal Cancer

Sam Kean

July 20, 2012 6:00 AM

The Chromosomal Evidence That Mankind Nearly Went Extinct

Sam Kean

July 19, 2012 6:00 AM

Humans Have Long Enjoyed Nonhuman Lovers—the Proof is in Our DNA

Sam Kean

July 18, 2012 6:00 AM

Did STDs Help Human Beings Evolve?

Sam Kean

July 17, 2012 6:00 AM

Possible Genetic Proof That Cannibalism Was Disturbingly Common in Our Past

Sam Kean

July 16, 2012 6:00 AM

How a Mutation on Chromosome 16 Gave Elizabeth Taylor Her Amazing Double Eyelashes

Sam Kean

July 13, 2012 6:00 AM

Muscular Dystrophy, Cri du Chat, “Immigration Delay Disease”: When DNA Fails.

Sam Kean

July 12, 2012 6:00 AM

The Nasty Fight Between Scientists That Resulted in the Sequencing of the Human Genome

Sam Kean

July 11, 2012 6:00 AM