After 2,000 years, a long-lost secret behind the creation of one of the world’s most durable man-made creations ever—Roman concrete—has finally been discovered by an international team of scientists, ...

Concrete is an incredibly useful and versatile building material on which not only today’s societies, but also the ancient Roman Empire was built. To this day Roman concrete structures can be found in ...

Yale University's Art and Architecture Building, designed by Paul Rudolph and completed in 1963, is a prime example of Brutalist architecture. Courtesy of Lauren Manning/Flickr Roman Mars’ podcast 99% ...

A key discovery to understanding Roman architectural concrete that has stood the test of time and the elements for nearly two thousand years has been made by researchers using beams of X-rays. No ...

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Scientists have solved the mystery of the durability of Ancient Rome‘s concrete and in the process may have learned something that could influence modern day construction. The research, published this ...

Concrete is today’s most popular building material. In fact, it’s consumed in greater quantities than any substance on earth, second only to water. But it’s easy to abuse. Consult anyone’s list of the ...

MIT chemist Admir Masic really hoped his experiment wouldn’t explode. Masic and his colleagues were trying to re-create an ancient Roman technique for making concrete, a mix of cement, gravel, sand ...