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 ...

It’s a major contributor to climate change—the way buildings and roads are made with concrete. It’s also a problem that’s growing as more of the world develops. So the race has been on to find ...

New research shows Roman concrete relied on heat-driven mixing and reactive lime, giving it a surprising self-healing ability ...

Concrete and steel production are major sources of CO2 emissions, but a new solution from Cambridge could recycle both at the same time. Throwing old concrete into steel-processing furnaces not only ...

The only snag was that this didn’t match the recipe as described in historical texts. Now the same team is back with a fresh ...

Roughly 8% of the world's total carbon emissions come from making one thing - cement. Cement is a key ingredient in the 30 billion tons of concrete that the world uses each year. And because of all ...