Daily briefing: Five science classics you might finally have time to read

Nature, Published online: 23 April 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-01243-6

From Galileo to Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, catch up on some of the science classics you’ve always intended to read (or pretended to have read). Plus, the first COVID-19 death in the US might have occurred 3 weeks earlier than thought and why one climate scientist says there is no silver lining to coronavirus.

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