Sam Kean Audio & Video

From New York Times best-selling author Sam Kean come more incredible stories of science, history, language, and music, as told by our own DNA.

The author of the best seller The Disappearing Spoon reveals the secret inner workings of the brain through strange-but-true stories.

Science Magazine reporter Sam Kean reveals the periodic table as it's never been seen before....

Locked inside the DNA of every species that ever lived are endless stories - about origins, ancestors, fate, and much more.

From a New York Times bestselling author comes the gripping, untold history of science's darkest secrets, "a fascinating book (that) deserves a wide audience" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

From New York Times best-selling author Sam Kean comes the gripping, untold story of a renegade group of scientists and spies determined to keep Adolf Hitler from obtaining the ultimate prize: a nuclear bomb

Sam Kean discusses his new book at Politics & Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C. This event was recorded on June 7, 2014.

The fascinating science and history of the air we breathe. It's invisible. It's ever present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell.