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 ...

To make aerated concrete, add a foam-forming agent and stir in a significant amount of air. This serves to make the concrete ...

This strange white paste might not look like much, but it might help solve the sand shortage, while making the cement manufacturing process capture carbon dioxide instead of emitting it. Scientists at ...

What if we could use renewable concrete bricks to build new structures? It might not seem like it, but construction is one of the biggest drivers for greenhouse gases, which can cause global ...

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 ...

This time of year, bushels of rhubarb, potatoes, and lettuce can be harvested in abundance at the People’s Pantry, a community garden that doubles as a fresh food pantry in Blackpool, England. There, ...

Leaky gas wells are not only a waste of natural resources, but a significant player when it comes to climate change via the release of methane into the atmosphere. Engineers at Penn State University ...

Scientists at MIT have made an efficient battery out of cement, one that could form the foundation of your house and be used to charge your electric car. They took the existing cement battery and made ...

Cement is the foundation of our civilization — quite literally. We couldn’t construct the buildings around us without cement. We couldn’t have durable constructions. Everything would fall apart. But ...

New research into an abandoned construction site in Pompeii has revealed the secrets of Roman cement manufacturing.