Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bucket being filled with cement - Alvarez/Getty Images The modern world is built on concrete, and cement is what makes it possible ...

Concrete makes up half of all human-made stuff on our planet. And its use will double, in part to battle climate threats ...

There's a lot the average person doesn't know about concrete. For example, it's porous; it's the world's most-used material after water; and, perhaps most fundamentally, it's not cement. Though many ...

Concrete has poured the modern world into shape for more than a century, but its climate math has never worked in its favor.

Concrete ranks second among the most widely used materials on the planet and is regarded as highly versatile for ...

It's not uncommon to see people using the terms cement and concrete interchangeably, but the fact of the matter is, they're wrong. It's like using 'flour' or 'sugar' to describe a full cake, as cement ...

When they used the new "thermoactivated" cement to make new concrete, they found that it was simply not strong enough due to the fact that it was more porous than regular cement. The solution, they ...

Researchers at TU Wien are working with technology partners to develop a digital manufacturing process for topology-optimized ...