For his final graduate thesis, Jesús Sánchez, an industrial-design student at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, invented an elegant solution to the problem of mobility for the disabled, which ...

People who walk on escalators might say that they do it because they’re “in a hurry,” but we indolent standers know that they only do it to make us feel bad. In an unexpected—and ...

Are we using escalators most efficiently by standing on the right and walking on the left? A study from 2016 found it's faster for all passengers to stand on both sides. Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson ...