If your entire house is a water filter, clean water is never hard to find. Every time it rains, this concrete house turns into an oversized water filter. Rainwater runs from the roof through a ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Professor Lucio Blandini, head of the Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design (ILEK), holds a piece of concrete ...

Researchers have developed a building material made from components of urine, which has the environmental benefit of making effective use of waste material and reducing greenhouse gas emissions during ...

It’s the world’s most popular building material, and ever since the Romans built the pantheon from it some 2,000 years ago, we’ve been trying to find ways to make concrete more durable. No matter how ...

Concrete that can repair itself by using a naturally occurring process could soon be used in Australian buildings and infrastructure, experts say. Concrete degrades over time and can crack, which can ...

Two researchers from Delft Technical University in Holland have developed a self-healing cement that can stop microcracks from forming in concrete. The material incorporates alkaphilic bacterial ...

Reducing the carbon footprint of concrete and cement by relying on biology. Concrete is the most important building material on Earth – and it’s also responsible for a MASSIVE chunk of global carbon ...

Remember how cool we all thought the original T-1000 was when it would heal itself after getting shot thanks to its liquid metal alloy? Well, some scientists have created something that's almost as ...