Concrete: We use it for our buildings, bridges, dams, and roads. We walk on it, drive on it, and many of us live and work within its walls. But very few of us k

A historical account of our most versatile building material, beginning in ancient Egypt and ending on the moon.

Earth's outcasts, exiled to a distant planet and forgotten about, face a choice: slowly wipe each other out with the attritional gang violence that ravages thei

A finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award The gripping story of the most important overlooked commodity in the world--sand--and the cru

Concrete has been used in arches, vaults, and domes dating as far back as the Roman Empire. Today, it is everywhere—in our roads, bridges, sidewalks, walls, a