Over the last decade, researchers have come discover the Romans' secret concrete recipe that has maintained so many of its now-ancient buildings. The most recent of these studies reveals that some ...

The Roman concrete test samples came from the archaeological ... How this came to be, or which engineers first invented it will probably never be known, but it does appear to be a technique ...

They did invent underfloor heating, concrete and the calendar that our modern calendar is based on. Concrete played an important part in Roman building, helping them construct structures like ...

Mark Miodownik explores how the Romans produced the first ... work of the chemist Leo Baekeland, who invented the plastic Bakelite. What is reinforced concrete? videoWhat is reinforced concrete?

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University announced a breakthrough in understanding the durability of ancient Roman concrete. El Confidencial reported ...