Cement built the modern world, but it also quietly helped heat the planet. As researchers race to cut emissions from ...

Across the Mediterranean, hulking Roman harbors, aqueducts and amphitheaters still stand where modern concrete would have crumbled. After years of debate, a convergence of new lab work, field studies ...

Chemists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology wanted to understand why Roman-era concrete structures have been able to last the test of time, while modern-era concrete structures do not. The ...

What can concrete made during the Roman Empire help modern engineering develop more efficient concrete? This is what a recent study published in iScience hopes to address as an international team of ...

A CU Boulder-led research team has figured out a way to make cement production carbon negative using microalgae. Global cement production accounts for 7% of annual greenhouse gas emissions. To make ...

Using the Advanced Light Source at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, researchers from the University of California, Berkeley studied a Roman breakwater that has ...

Cement is an ancient building material, but its modern form dates back to the 1800s and has facilitated the building of everything from skyscrapers to subterranean shopping malls. David Saylor, a ...

Concrete properties and quality testing are advancing as new technologies enter the industry. Traditional methods, such as break tests, remain widely accepted in standardized practices, but jobsites ...