This story was originally published by Grist. You can subscribe to its weekly newsletter here. Block-Lite is a small concrete manufacturer in an industrial corridor of Flagstaff, Arizona. The ...

Block-Lite is a small concrete manufacturer in an industrial corridor of Flagstaff, Arizona. The third-generation family business makes bricks and other masonry materials for retaining walls, ...

Imagine taking heaps and heaps of earth-polluting, unusable plastic waste and actually transforming it into something constructive? Plastic pollution is a proliferating and increasingly overwhelming ...

There’s hardly anything on this planet that’s more widely in demand than concrete. And while we need the essential building material for infrastructure, housing, and beyond, it comes at a high climate ...

Scientists and engineers discover fluorescence from silicon nanoparticles in cement and show how it can be used to reveal early signs of damage in concrete structures. Concrete fractures that are ...

(Nanowerk News) Concrete fractures that are invisible to the naked eye stand out in images produced through a technique created at Rice University. A collaboration between research groups at Rice and ...