Why does it smell so good after it rains? When can we lift the coronavirus pandemic precautions? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of April 6 - 12 2020 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm.

As we enter into the fourth week of quarantine for some, ScienceSeeker's coverage of the best science news from sources you can trust offers you reliable information as the crisis continues to unfold. This week, as well as a wide selection of articles covering corona, explore the finding that space may be different depending which way you look at it. ScienceSeeker editors' favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise also cover many other important and exciting topics. Why not have a read, inform yourself, and indulge your scientific curiosity?

• Here's why soil smells so good after it rains by Klas Flärdh and Paul Becher for The Conversation UK.

  

  The smell is called 'Petrichor'. There, now you know.
  Image credit: Boris Kasimov via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

• When can we lift the coronavirus pandemic restrictions? Not before taking these steps by Tanya Lewis for Scientific American.
• Scientists need to figure out which measures best control Covid-19 - STAT by Sharon Begley for STAT news.
• How will the pandemic shape biotech in the months ahead? by Adam Feuerstein, Damian Garde, and Rebecca Robbins for STAT news.
• Hydroxychloroquine update for April 6 by Derek Lowe at Science Translational Medicine.
• A doctor and a deli manager: essential personnel in Covid-19 fight by Michelle Myles for STAT news.
• I'm a student stranded in the U.S. My family is in Italy. We all worry by Silvia Martelli for STAT news.
• For survivors of severe COVID-19, beating the virus is just the beginning by Kelly Servick for Science magazine.
• A very mysterious direction in the Universe by Konstantinos Migkas for Chandra X-ray Observatory blog.
• Universe is anisotropic on large scales, new study suggests by Sci-news.com.
• Margaret Burbidge, astronomer who studied the inner workings of stars, dies at 100 by Meghan Bartels for Scientific American.
• [Fiction] The ghost of cells past, Part 2 by Deborah Flusberg for LabLit.

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