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You might not actually break your mother’s back if you step on a crack on the sidewalk, but cracks and holes in concrete are a persistent and expensive problem in the construction industry. Despite ...

Cement and concrete haven't changed much as technology in over a hundred years, but researchers in Colorado are revolutionizing building materials by literally bringing them to life. The method ...

Docile and dormant concrete is so last decade. Instead, scientists are now pushing the boundaries of material science and to design living, reproducible concrete — with a little help from bacteria. A ...

For centuries, builders have been making concrete roughly the same way: by mixing hard materials like sand with binders and hoping it stays fixed and rigid for a long time to come. Now, an ...

In hopes of producing concrete structures that can repair their cracks, researchers from Drexel University's College of Engineering are putting a new twist on an old trick for improving the durability ...

For centuries, builders have been making concrete roughly the same way: by mixing hard materials like sand with various binders, and hoping it stays fixed and rigid for a long time to come. Now, an ...