Inside the project to bring ‘self-healing’ Roman concrete to American shorelines
Ancient Roman concrete could self-heal when exposed to seawater. Modern researchers have cracked its chemical code and are putting it to the test.
Ancient Roman concrete could self-heal when exposed to seawater. Modern researchers have cracked its chemical code and are putting it to the test.
Rocks remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere when it’s warm and rainy, in a process that’s like nature’s air filter.
A book excerpt from “What’s Gotten Into You” by Dan Levitt covers the history of scurvy in the world’s greatest navies, and how a lack of knowledge of vitamins made the disease worse.
Eating a single meal of freshwater fish could lead to similar PFAS exposure as eating store-bought fish every day for a year.
New hydrogel sheet breakthroughs make them flexible, foldable, and more durable than paper towels, although they currently don’t come cheap.
Previously, drones were used to study the structural integrity of volcanic domes, and capture thermal images of volcanic areas from above.
Iodine from the ocean plays an important role in cloud formation, but too much of it could eat away at the Earth’s protective ozone layer.
A new study finds that synthetic fertilizer sprays alter the electric field of flowers, causing bumblebees to avoid them.
Silkworm silk is plentiful. Spider silk is tough. A new study attempts to meld the best features of those animals’ threads.
Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal, and K. Barry Sharpless received the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing the fields of click chemistry and bioorthogonals.