Community Edition - March 31, 2020

While this year's conference was canceled due to COVID-19 concerns, CWA will host a virtual speaker series including Dan Carlin, this year's livestream commencement speaker and the host of the Hardcore History podcast. The speaker sessions will be recorded and available afterward as well.

Vying for up to $100,000 in prizes, six teams will participate in the virtual NVC championships April 7, including a startup that can help detect illness before symptoms appear and more.

A new CU Boulder study shows that Facebook ads developed and shared by Russian trolls around the 2016 election were clicked on nine times more than typical social media ads. The authors say the trolls are likely at it again, as the 2020 election approaches and the COVID-19 pandemic wears on.

A new study of more than 1,800 adult twins found that individuals who started using cannabis regularly before age 18 were more likely to suffer insomnia and sleep fewer than six hours per night as adults.

A new spacecraft could become NASA's nose in space, sniffing out the environments beyond Earth's solar system that might host planets with thick atmospheres.

A CU Boulder researcher has received a $1.75 million NSF grant to study chickadee hybrids.

Changes in Southern Hemisphere atmospheric circulation, triggered by chemicals that deplete Earth’s protective ozone layer, have paused and might even be reversing, according to new research in Nature.

Colorado business leaders’ optimism dropped to its lowest point in the 17-year history of the Leeds Business Confidence Index, largely due to the coronavirus outbreak.