
Sigal Samuel
Senior Reporter
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As they treat coronavirus, health care workers report high rates of depression and anxiety, a new study shows.


Even if you know nothing about artificial intelligence, you can volunteer to forecast the future of Covid-19.

Popular apps are awarding points for beating “bad guys” and completing “power-ups” — and drawing from real, clinically approved treatments.

The 15-minute appointment is pervasive, and despised by patients and physicians alike. Rita Charon is teaching a generation of health care providers to listen better — with the help of literature.

Four-year-olds can learn things even the most intelligent machine can’t. It’s time AI researchers took note.


We’re living in a dangerous post-antibiotic era. AI can help.

Two very different scenes played out in New Delhi this week.


The answer is not “eat local.”


Amazon is a mega-polluter. Cleaning house at the company should be the CEO’s top priority.


Scientists don’t know what to make of fast radio bursts. Some think they come from aliens.