Articles by

Sujata Gupta

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...

Chess players rely on familiar moves even when the game changes

Last year, my son joined the middle school chess club and began using me, a total novice,...

Uncertainty is on the rise. Here’s how people can cope

The rapid pace of change under the current presidential administration has been amping up people’s feelings of...