Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. UCLA civil engineering professor Gaurav Sant is flanked by project scientists Iman Mehdipour, left, and Gabe Falzone behind a ...

Researchers have turned concrete from a demolished school building and carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air into new blocks strong enough to build a house with. The process involved grinding the old ...

Known as Sugarcrete, this bio-building component can serve as a brick, an insulating panel, or a load-bearing element.

For centuries, builders have been making concrete roughly the same way: by mixing hard materials like sand with various binders, and hoping it stays fixed and rigid for a long time to come. Now, an ...