The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean Sam Kean

Ahead of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, a look at the surprisingly important role science played in shaping—and remaking—an invasion that could have easily been a disaster...


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One doctor’s controversial crusade to keep men and women out of prison through nose jobs, eye lifts, and other plastic surgery.


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In 1959, nine Russian hikers mysteriously died on a trek through the snowy wilderness—fueling a half-century of hysterical conspiracies. Has science finally cracked the case?


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After a tenure dispute, mechanical engineer Valery Fabrikant murdered four colleagues in cold blood at his university in Montreal. So why is he still allowed to publish scientific papers?


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Chemist Justus von Liebig was perhaps the most famous scientist in the world in the mid-1800s—but quickly became infamous for his role in the killing of four starving infants.


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Patient after patient died under the care of a single nurse in Holland. So why did so many statisticians think Lucia de Berk was innocent?


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