Articles by

Sujata Gupta

Pronatalists want more babies. Their solutions aren’t rooted in science

Vice President J.D. Vance has spent years urging people in the United States to have more babies....

Social media can be addictive, a jury finds. Research hints at a link

Social media is designed to be addictive, jurors in a landmark trial against two of the largest...

Why we fail to notice climate change

In northern Vermont, where I live, old newspaper clippings show pictures of people driving trucks across Lake...

AI auto-complete may subtly shape views on social issues

Using AI to auto-complete written communications may be tempting. But the large language models may also auto-complete...

When the fish stop biting, ice fishers follow the crowd

Winters are long and frigid in North Karelia, a Finnish state on the Russian border. Many locals...

With effort, procrastinators can change

I didn’t visit a dentist for years in my 20s. I periodically considered setting up an appointment...

Among chimpanzees, thrill-seeking peaks in toddlerhood

Toddlers are the daredevils of the chimp world. Chimps ages 2 to 5 are more likely than...

This new year, maybe resolve to quit

In the classic American folktale The Little Engine That Could, a small blue locomotive laboriously chugs up...