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AI is becoming a powerful tool for research. Intelligent labs let models drive the instruments and learn from every result to choose what to focus on next, exploring spaces far larger than a person could cover. Neuromorphic computing goes the other way: it imitates the neurons and synapses of the brain, so that a single device performs in one physical step what a digital processor spreads over many transistors and clock cycles, keeping memory and computation in the same place.

Exploring the connection between art and science is particularly fascinating. Science has long investigated the underlying relationships within the arts, and today scientific knowledge forms part of the technical training in many artistic disciplines. Reciprocally, the arts also influence science, from the communication and dissemination of results to new ways of engaging society with science.