Sarah Aucoin was in high spirits as she stepped on to the ascending escalator at Boston’s Back Bay station a few minutes ...

But the escalator’s principal achievement, shared with the lift, has been to make tall buildings possible, ensuring, in the words of the New Yorker writer Nick Paumgarten, that the population of ...

A Chinese man has gone viral for his unexpected display of, um, flexibility on an escalator. A commuter was on her way to a subway station in Hangzhou when she saw a middle-aged man doing the splits ...