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

The freeze and thaw cycle has cracked your concrete driveway. Instead of paying thousands for professional repair, do it ...

In an extraordinary fusion of art, environmental science and marine conservation, a fleet of life-sized concrete cars is ...

Scientists are always looking for ways to make inherently brittle materials, such as concrete or ceramic, tougher, safer, and ...

Scientists have uncovered how Roman concrete has endured millennia. The discovery reveals an ancient technique that allowed ...

What if you could turn concrete into a viable and effective energy storage option? While that might seem a bit out-of-this-world, that's exactly what MIT researchers have managed to do, according to ...

Concrete has been integral to buildings and architecture since the Romans used it to construct monuments like the Pantheon and the Coliseum. The Romans also used the material to build marine ...

The ruins of the Roman Forum. Credit: THINK Global School/flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Over two thousand years ago, the ancient Romans built piers, breakwaters, and other structures out of concrete—and some ...

A new kind of concrete could reduce emissions from the construction industry. Calcium carbonate concrete is made from waste concrete and carbon dioxide from the air or industrial exhaust gases. It ...

"While the public attributed the mark to a brown rat, no formal analysis had been conducted to confirm its identity," ...

When bridges, dam walls and other structures made of concrete are streaked with dark cracks after a few decades, the culprit is AAR: the alkali-aggregate reaction. AAR damages concrete structures all ...

It seems like every week, I can do an article on some interesting science that ended up buried under hyperbolic headlines and overly credible coverage. This week’s victim is “living concrete.” It only ...