Bricks and cinder blocks may look alike, but their materials, strength, and uses differ in important ways. Here's when to ...

Engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder recently conducted an experiment that sounds almost like a kids' science project: They added colonies of green bacteria to a mix of sand and ...

A big project, like building an outdoor patio or walkway, needs a lot of bricks. But they can be expensive. These ideas will ...

CU Boulder researchers have developed a new approach to designing more sustainable buildings with help from some of the tiniest contractors out there. "We already use biological materials in our ...

As one of the oldest building materials, dating back to at least 7500 BCE, brick is often thought of as a traditional, classic option for a building facade. Throughout its long history, however, the ...

Bricks are one of the oldest building technologies in the world and one of the very first fully fabricated ones, made by mixing ingredients together like the earliest ceramics. But one scientist ...

Firing bricks and making mortar and cement is very costly, but organic chemists are working on more sustainable alternatives -- focusing on building materials made from waste products. In another move ...

Each year, more than 380 million tonnes of plastic is produced worldwide. LEGO is responsible for 100,000 tonnes of it. This contribution to the annual total is, of course, the result of making its ...

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for determining the historical location and distribution of radioactive materials, such as weapons grade plutonium. The ...

WHAT was once waste from water treatment plants is now being processed into high-value cement bricks through an innovative ...