Adding sodium bicarbonate—baking soda—in powder form to concrete production could reduce the carbon footprint of the ubiquitous building material by 15%, without compromising mechanical performance, ...

We rely on concrete for many aspects of life—the roads we drive on, the dams that help produce power or control flooding, and structures that form our cities, to name a few. This durable, versatile, ...

Nobody knows who did it first or when. But by the 2nd or 3rd century B.C.E., Roman engineers were routinely grinding up burnt limestone and volcanic ash to make cementum: a powder that would start to ...