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The Shortest Path to the Brain Runs Through the Nose | Lawrence Fine, CEO and Co-Founder of AGCP Farmacêuticos, Lisbon
Nasal drug delivery could offer a promising route for delivering medicines to the brain while bypassing the blood-brain barrier, with…
Cities Are Learning to Rehearse Before They Build
Smart city technology is moving beyond dashboards and connected infrastructure toward something more consequential: cities that can simulate decisions, learn…
The Most Important New Technology in Human Development May Be the One That Learns How You Learn
Environmental organizations are entering a new era in which satellites, AI, environmental DNA and continuous sensing could turn nature from…
The Most Important New Technology in Human Development May Be the One That Learns How You Learn
Human development may be entering a new phase as intelligent systems begin to personalise how people learn, think, practise skills…
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The Next Breakthrough in Healthcare AI May Be Knowing What Works
As healthcare AI moves from individual tasks into the fabric of clinical care, a new opportunity is emerging: proving which…
The Next Mental Wellbeing Platform May Not Be an App. It May Become a Companion to Everyday Life
Mental wellbeing platforms are evolving from libraries of content into continuous support systems that can recognise patterns, personalise interventions and…
The Second Job Nobody Was Hired to Do
Across almost every knowledge-work job, a new kind of labor has quietly appeared: watching, checking and correcting an AI system…
Bioinformatics Is Becoming the Operating System for Biology
Bioinformatics was once the discipline that helped scientists make sense of biological data. It is becoming something much more ambitious.…
The Fitness Tracker Is Becoming Something Much Bigger
Fitness technology is moving beyond counting steps and workouts toward continuously understanding how an individual responds to exercise, creating a…
The Brain Is Becoming a New Interface. Who Will Build the World Around It?
For decades, computers have been designed around the limits of the human body: keyboards, screens, microphones, cameras and touchscreens. Neurotechnology…
