This time of year, bushels of rhubarb, potatoes, and lettuce can be harvested in abundance at the People’s Pantry, a community garden that doubles as a fresh food pantry in Blackpool, England. There, ...

Injuries or surgeries, such as tumor removal, can create gaps in bone that are too large to heal naturally. To help regrow that bone, researchers report a new formulation for bone cement that combines ...

Inspired by the shiny lining of mollusk shells, researchers created a cement composite 19 times more flexible and 17 times more crack-resistant than regular cement. Its properties could be applied to ...

The modern world is built with concrete. Humans use more concrete annually than any other material besides water. Yet cement, the key component of concrete, is the source of as much as 10% of all ...