This strange white paste might not look like much, but it might help solve the sand shortage, while making the cement manufacturing process capture carbon dioxide instead of emitting it. Scientists at ...

Concrete and steel production are major sources of CO2 emissions, but a new solution from Cambridge could recycle both at the same time. Throwing old concrete into steel-processing furnaces not only ...

After water, concrete is the most consumed substance on the planet and its production is expected to grow from 4.4 billion tons to 5.5 billion tons by 2050. But its production, which involves cement, ...

Scientists at startup Sublime Systems want to fix one of our biggest climate nightmares. This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review's weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox ...

On a recent afternoon, Mehdi Rashidi was hard at work shattering concrete. He held up a concrete column, shaped like an extra tall soup can, for his colleagues to assess. “Should we break this one as ...