Archaeologists in Lebanon uncovered the oldest hydraulic lime plaster in Phoenician architecture, predating Roman concrete by ...

A 2,000-year-old Roman observation about volcanic ash is inspiring researchers to reinvent cement and slash its carbon ...

Imagine concrete that not only survives wildfires and extreme weather, but heals itself and absorbs carbon from the air.

In 79 A.D., Roman author Pliny the Elder marveled at how dust could turn to stone. "Who, indeed," he wrote in Naturalis ...

Before firewalls, there were real walls. This video uncovers how the Roman Empire built one of history’s most enduring frontiers. It’s a story of defense, dominance, and the relentless pursuit of ...

Imagine the concrete in our homes and bridges not only withstanding the ravages of time and natural disasters like the ...

A village’s unusual brutalist church will be knocked down without councillors getting a vote — despite the council’s own ...

Donald Trump was reportedly expected to lay out Monday a fresh strategy for arming Ukraine as his special envoy arrived in ...

From the mud, straw, and gypsum mixtures of ancient Egypt's monumental pyramids to the sophisticated underwater material ...

Penn professors Masoud Akbarzadeh of the Weitzman School and Shu Yang of the School of Engineering and Applied Science have ...

In this paper, the effectiveness of potassium poly-acrylate as an internal curing agent for improving the compressive strength of concrete is investigated. Concrete specimens designed to achieve a ...