Articles by

Sujata Gupta

People with ADHD may have an underappreciated advantage: Hypercuriosity

Anne-Laure Le Cunff was something of a wild child. As a teenager, she repeatedly disabled the school...

Measure blood sugar with a grain of salt

Nicole Spartano does not have diabetes. But the Boston University epidemiologist has occasionally worn a continuous glucose...

Screen addiction affects teens’ mental health. How to spot it, and help

School’s out. Teens are bored. And the siren call of social media and video games beckons.  ...

AI can measure our cultural history. But is it accurate?

The feelings, emotions and behaviors of people who lived in the past don’t leave a fossil record....

A common parenting practice may be hindering teen development

Vacation season is upon us. But that doesn’t necessarily translate to teens roaming free. A new poll...

Students’ mental health imperiled by $1 billion cuts to school funding

Four-year-old Elijah’s task was to draw a penguin, his favorite animal, and then rip up the paper...

Cryopreservation is not sci-fi. It may save plants from extinction

Early one morning in 1985, a pair of researchers trekked into a spit of Colombian rainforest surrounded...

$1.8 billion in NIH grant cuts hit minority health research the hardest

The headlines keep coming: Another federal grant funding medical research terminated. Another lab devoted to mental health...