A cement truck rolled over early Thursday morning on a county road in London, spilling cement into the ditch and leaking diesel fuel as Texas Department of Public Safety personnel worked to clear the ...

Yes, mollusks. Mollusks have a special composite material lining their inner shell, known as “nacre.” Nacre, also known as ...

Concrete is ubiquitous in the modern world, but building cities, roads and other infrastructure and more comes with an environmental cost. Cement and concrete production is responsible for significant ...

Cleaning up the construction material that is both building our way of life, while contributing to the CO2 emission problem.

Researchers have developed a method to produce very low emission concrete at scale -- an innovation that could be transformative in the transition to net zero. The method, which the researchers say is ...

Not too long ago, I was searching for ideas for the next installment of the “Big Chemistry” series when I found an article that discussed the world’s most-produced chemicals. It was an interesting ...

New technologies spurred by federal support show a cleaner path forward for the highly emissive cement and concrete industry. Despite cement’s overwhelming presence, the world has been relatively slow ...

Concrete, the second-most-used material on Earth, generates about four times more CO2 emissions than planes. MIDDLESBROUGH, England — Behold one of the world’s greatest slag heaps: A towering landfill ...