Engineers at Princeton have unveiled a groundbreaking cement formulation that is 17 times more crack-resistant than ...

The ancient Romans were masters of building and engineering, perhaps most famously represented by the aqueducts.

Rome’s Pantheon stands defiant 2,000 years after it was built, its marble floors sheltered under the world’s largest unreinforced concrete dome. For decades, researchers have probed samples from Roman ...

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Last month, on a bitterly cold day, a truck pulled up to a construction site in Boston and poured concrete. It looked and performed like ordinary concrete—but it was the first commercial use of a new ...

In 2014, hundreds of Angelenos gathered downtown to watch more than 2,000 trucks pour concrete into a vast hole. During that event, Los Angeles set a world record: 80 million pounds of concrete were ...

Every morning, billions of coffee drinkers toss their spent grounds in the trash—but scientists say that waste could actually ...

Learn how to cast a unique cement pot using a simple Styrofoam mold. This project demonstrates step-by-step techniques for ...

The cement industry is a big emitter of carbon dioxide, making up about 7% of emissions globally. There’s interest in changing that, including from the industry itself. Two major producers of cement, ...

A material that got its start in the Arizona desert is showing up in science journals with astounding reports that it could transform our buildings and infrastructure. That's because Ferrock has ...