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 ...

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 ...

The new brick can be manufactured with a high density, compressive strength, tensile strength and Young's modulus (the ability to withstand changes under lengthwise compression). Researchers led by a ...