The Scan

Undark looks into how coronavirus-related shutdowns are affecting field researchers.

Politico reports President Donald Trump has signed the $2 trillion coronavirus relief package.

A new analysis finds that peer review improves the quality of preprints just a little bit, according to ScienceInsider.

Master's and doctoral students in the UK call on funding groups to extend their grants for the duration of the disruption caused by the COVID-19 outbreak, the Guardian reports.

Squid can make edits to their RNA within the cytoplasm of their axons, Science News reports.

The US Senate has unanimously passed a $2 trillion stimulus package to address the coronavirus, the New York Times reports.

The Los Angeles Times writes that another coronavirus testing challenge — antibody testing — looms. 

The Washington Post reports the US Senate is to vote on a $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package today.

A woman's ability to smell differences between people with and without Parkinson's disease could someday lead to a tool to detect the condition early, according to NPR.

The US Food and Drug Administration has issued a safety alert for fecal microbiota transplants as SARS-CoV-2 has been found in patients' stool.

Researchers find through imaging that the tongue microbiome is highly structured, Science reports.

Nature News reports that some geneticists are concerned that they only learned from a colleague's tweet that they might have been exposed to SARS-CoV-2.