Enzymes are essentially biological catalysts. They are proteins that speed up chemical reactions in the body that would ...

Concrete Contractor connected with interim CEO Kristal Kaye and Jason Campbell, commercial director for North America, for ...

New research shows Roman concrete relied on heat-driven mixing and reactive lime, giving it a surprising self-healing ability ...

Incorporating a phase-change material into concrete, researchers have created a self-heating material that can melt snow and ice for up to 10 hours without using salt or shovels. The novel material ...

Neglect a modern concrete structure for a few decades and it’ll start to fall apart – and yet, structures built by the ancient Romans are still standing strong after 2,000 years. Now, engineers have ...

The only snag was that this didn’t match the recipe as described in historical texts. Now the same team is back with a fresh ...

As winter approaches, Canada's roads, bridges, sidewalks and buildings are facing a familiar problem: cracks caused by large ...

Solving the problem that is concrete—the second-most-used substance, after water, and a candidate for the most harmful to the planet—has inspired a wave of start-ups to develop less harmful ...

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A construction site dating back nearly 2,000 years to the putative demise of Pompeii in 79 CE has revealed new evidence for ...

Isotopic analysis confirmed that the workers in Pompeii relied on hot-mixing when making their concrete. Samples from the ...

Fresh excavations in Pompeii have turned a buried construction workshop into a working laboratory, revealing how Roman ...