"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The use of concrete as a construction material has been around for millenia: Historians say that ancient ...

Cement is one of those materials you don’t think about until it breaks — until the bridge you drive across, the house you live in, or the sidewalk you walk on shows cracks. Yet it is everything ...

Producing cement is a major source of carbon emissions — 8% of the global total. A company in Massachusetts has altered the recipe, finding a way to produce carbon-zero cement instead. Roughly 8% of ...

An approximately 2,000-year-old technology, concrete is used as a structural component in commercial/ residential buildings, pavements, and driving surfaces of bridges and roads. From earlier use in ...

Princeton researchers believe seashells might just hold the key to stronger concrete.

While concrete is a durable, long-lived pavement solution, some conditions—such as expansion and contraction due to temperature change, or deviations in mix ingredients—represent real-world challenges ...