An elevator malfunction that caused hot oil to pour from the lift's equipment and fill the Louisiana Art and Science Museum with a "stench" has forced the closure of the building through Sunday, ...

Would you consider the ubiquitous elevator worthy of a shrine? Apparently this humble-seeming mode of transportation has more devotees in New York City than you’d think. There are two different ...

The space elevator concept has had its ups and downs — but this year, it looks as if the concept's proponents are definitely trying to push the “up” button again. There’s a new Kickstarter project, ...

Researchers gathered at the Space Elevator Conference on Thursday said that an elevator could make transportation to space so much more inexpensive than it is now, that companies could build large ...

Yeah, I see you … taking the ICC elevator from floor two to floor three. Or worse, from floor three to floor two. Many of us consider the elevator a blessing, and sometimes this blessing introduces us ...

In the first episode of the Foundation series on Apple TV, we see a terrorist try to destroy the space elevator used by the Galactic Empire. This seems like a great chance to talk about the physics of ...