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Sandra J. Ackerman

Sandra J. Ackerman is a contributing editor to American Scientist. She is a member of the National Association of Science Writers and the author of two books and numerous articles on science and medicine.

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Article

  • Reviewing the Prehistoric Menu
  • Drilling into the Climate of Human Origins
  • In Bulgaria, a Cave of Many Questions
  • What This Half-Jaw Could Tell Us
  • A Buffet of Primate Studies
  • Prehistoric Arts and Crafts
  • First Person: John G. Hildebrand
  • Where Anthropology and Genetics Go Together
  • Neanderthals Reenvisioned
  • Cuban and American Physics
  • The Historic Turns of a River
  • The Nets Around the Neurons
  • A Story of Serration
  • New Sites on the Trail of Early Humans
  • Ecology of the Mojave
  • First Person: Jim Smith
  • Climate Change and Cholera
  • Snow Science
  • Taste Masters
  • New Information from Ancient Genomes
  • Precision Medicine Takes Aim at Cancer
  • First Person: How Do Living Cells Perform Quality Control?
  • First Person: Exploring the Unconscious Brain
  • A Different Kind of CSI: Crime and Stable Isotopes

Blog

  • Neanderthals in Prime Time
  • Prehistoric Decisions Preserved in Artifacts
  • Crowdsourcing the Paleolithic
  • How Insects Are Stimulated by Smells
  • Introducing Homo naledi
  • The Living World in Eight Mandalas
  • Big Data and the Individual Patient
  • How Much Sleep is Just Right?
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November-December - 2025 - Volume: 113 - Number: 6

The large-scale structure of the universe was set...

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