Construction teams around the world rely on bitumen—an incredibly sticky by-product of crude oil production—as the main binding agent for asphalt. But a team of scientists reckon that a compound found ...

What China stands to lose after Trump's Venezuela blitz, India may soon be building at home.

Given roads are everywhere and involve some carbon-intensive processes to build, scientists are investigating how alternative materials could make the whole process more sustainable. We've seen how ...

ONE of the bleakest scenes of man-made destruction is the strip mining of oil sands in the forests of Alberta, Canada. The sand is permeated with natural bitumen, a type of petroleum with the ...

Indian innovators have made a remarkable stride with a new technology that repurposes crop stubble into a valuable resource ...

Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday highlighted how the agricultural waste can be converted into a valuable national resource, and noted that bio-bitumen is a "transformative step" towards the ...

Mr. Thomas Singh’s recent letter to the Press framed the election as a binary choice between “continuity and change.” I would suggest it is also a choice between more concrete and bitumen versus ...