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Protecting Federal Research from Foreign Influence

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What is 5G and Why Does It Matter?

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Auditing and Addressing Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

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Deconstructing Deepfakes—How do they work and what are the risks?

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Don’t Fear Artificial Intelligence, Plan for It

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The Tech Behind COVID-19 Contact Tracing

Podcast Roundup—The Federal Response to COVID-19

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The Role and Risk of Herd Immunity When It Comes to COVID-19

The figure below shows the 2 broad categories of infectious disease models: mechanistic models, which use scientific understanding of disease dynamics and human behavior, and statistical models, which rely only on patterns in the data.

Disease modeling: How Math Can Help In A Pandemic

The image shows a trapped ion qubit (a quantum bit) test bed in the Quantum Information and Integrated Nanosystems Group at Lincoln Laboratory.

Quantum Technology Leaping Toward Reality

The Reward and Risk of Expediting COVID-19 Testing and Vaccine Development