Articles by

Sujata Gupta

Breaking negative thought patterns could ward off anxiety, depression

Nipping negative repetitive thinking in the bud has the potential to stave off numerous mental health disorders....

Are AI chatbot ‘personalities’ in the eye of the beholder?

When Yang “Sunny” Lu asked OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 to calculate 1-plus-1 a few years ago, the chatbot, not...

Survivors of the LA fires will face a complex blend of mental health challenges

Even as firefighters are starting to gain ground on the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles, residents there...

Proposed time limits on anesthesia may have jeopardized patient safety

Following a public outcry, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield announced December 5 it had walked back plans...

Dengue is classified as an urban disease. Mosquitoes don’t care

The town of Borbón in northern Ecuador is home to several government and religious offices and a...

The ‘midlife crisis’ is too simple a story, scientists say

The notion of a midlife crisis is dead. Or maybe it was always bunk. Now some scientists...

A race to save Indigenous trails may change the face of archaeology

Wind jostles the helicopter as we skim over dense forest and the snow-covered peaks of the Coast...

The U.S. empire was built on bird dung

In December 1855 and January 1856, a trio of vessels set sail from the United States to...