Science

Scientists have developed a method to 3D print structures using local soil. Credit: Aayushi Bajpayee The construction sector currently faces two major challenges: the demand for sustainable infrastructure and the need to repair inferior buildings, bridges and roads. While concrete is the material of choice for many construction projects, it …

To date, approximately 1,308,264 tests have been completed statewide, and 1,020,926 people have been tested statewide. The MDH declared a backlog of about 25,000 tests dating to April, the vast majority of which were negative, were added to the system on Wednesday. So far, 5,988 patients have ever needed hospital …

Hundreds of millions of genetically engineered mosquitoes will soon be released in Florida, in a first for the US Tuesday, the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District (FKMCD) approved plans to release the non-biting insects as part of a pilot project launching next year. Exactly when and where the trial will …

Sen. Tammy Duckworth is scheduled to deliver an address to the Democratic National Convention on Thursday. Here’s what you need to know about the Illinois federal legislature. She was born in Bangkok, Thailand, in 1968 and is fluent in Thai and Indonesian. She attended college at the University of Hawaii …

The COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to become more deadly than the 1918 flu pandemic, a new study suggests. Remembered as the deadliest pandemic in recent history, the 1918 flu pandemic infected one third of the world’s population and killed at least 50 million people, 675,000 of them in the …