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

Off the coast of South Beach, a massive fleet of cars is being submerged underwater, but it will strangely benefit the marine ...

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 ...

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

In an extraordinary fusion of art, environmental science and marine conservation, a fleet of life-sized concrete cars is being submerged off the coast of South Beach. But these aren’t abandoned ...

The Roman Empire may be long gone, but its architecture has stood the test of time — most notably, its insanely durable concrete, which has been hailed as the world's strongest. The building material, ...

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 ...

Concrete may not seem like a particularly hospitable environment for life, but bacteria do actually live inside it. A new study led by the University of Delaware has examined this concrete microbiome ...

Jack has a degree in Medical Genetics from the University of Leicester.View full profile Jack has a degree in Medical Genetics from the University of Leicester. A new type of light-activated concrete ...

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 ...

Results of a new five-year study of recycled concrete show that it performs as well, and in several cases even better, than conventional concrete. Researchers conducted side-by-side comparisons of ...