Can be used on existing staircases for the mobility-impaired Can be used on existing staircases for the mobility-impaired Researchers have developed an energy-recycling mechanical staircase they hope ...

Fred Jung was at the American Dream megamall in East Rutherford when he saw it. An escalator, heading ... nowhere. Jung was recently on the third floor of the mall near the food court when he spied ...

Sound Transit has come around to the idea that in dire circumstances, it’s OK to use a stalled escalator as stairs. But that’s only when no other escalators or staircases are available. And those ...

Mitch Hedberg's excellent and hilarious routine about what happens when escalators break down aside, there is a certain strangeness and discomfort I encounter in those exact situations. It happened to ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Signs advertising the health benefits of stair-climbing might get more people to forgo that easy ride up the escalator, a study suggests. Sign up here. British researchers ...

Source: "Escalator and Stairs." Image by Karen Mardahl, Wikimedia, CC2.0 The Question “What if life came with little reminders to make healthy choices?” This intriguing question headlined an article ...

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: August 9th, 1859, 156 years ago today ... the day the patent for a prototype escalator, called "revolving stairs ...

I am privileged to teach in one of the world’s most respected economics departments. We’re on pretty much everyone’s top-15 list, and by a lot of measures, we’re considered top-five. I mention this by ...