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From residential homes and skyscrapers to art sculptures and footpaths, concrete is everywhere you look and it's difficult to imagine the modern world without it. As the most widely-used human-made ...

We make more concrete than any other material on the planet. A group of engineers across the country want to turn that production process—which accounts for over 7 percent of the world’s annual ...

Banner image: Wil Srubar holds a sample cube of concrete that contains biogenic limestone produced by calcifying macro- and microalgae. (Credit: Glenn Asakawa/CU Boulder) Global cement production ...

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This article is published in partnership with: So we need to have a little talk about concrete. We take it for granted, but concrete is the foundation (no pun intended) of countless buildings, homes, ...

When it comes to greenhouse gas emissions, it’s easy to focus on coal-fired power plants and internal combustion engines. They produce plenty of carbon dioxide, but another major source is less well ...