If you’ve ever mounted something heavy to brick using the plastic anchors and screws that come in the box, you’ve probably ...

People have been wondering whether a volcano could simply be plugged with concrete. In reality, there are plenty of reasons ...

As you descend into Charing Cross Tube Station, you are transported four years into a nightmare future. The posters lining ...

A 59,000-year-old Neanderthal tooth found in a Siberian cave shows signs of deliberate drilling to treat a deep cavity, pushing back the earliest evidence of dentistry by about 45,000 years. The lower ...

IQIP, a global leader specializing in innovative foundation and installation solutions for offshore and onshore projects, today announced the official launch of its next-generation hybrid installation ...

Keep up with everything happening in The Commons by signing up for our monthly newsletter. At a perilous moment for philanthropy, the sector faces a problem of its own making: a failure to explain ...

“Concrete affords an outdoor space an ‘anchor,’” Simlai relayed. “It’s highly resilient but deeply contextual.” The context is its materiality—modern concrete evokes something industrial and sparse, ...

A start-up in Budapest is pioneering a new route for difficult waste streams by turning them into construction material. Makropa has created a product called Waste Light Concrete (WLC), which replaces ...

Amid a sweeping job restructuring, the philanthropic giant is also contending with an external review into its ties to Jeffrey Epstein. “This is a challenging time for our organization in many ways, ...

Once concrete is mixed, poured, and cured, it may need to be drilled into for one reason or another. Given its solid, brittle nature, it's no surprise that specific tools are needed to drill into ...