Does the door close button in your elevator actually work? In Trapped In An Elevator, one expert said the button was a sham. But after viewers wrote to us disputing that, we decided to run a little ...

This is the story about emergency buttons and pet buttons that I mentioned I would cover "next time" in my previous talk ...

This. Changes. Everything. A feature in the New York Times notes that door-close buttons in elevators don't actually do anything—and haven't for decades. Functioning door-close buttons went out with ...

A button that lets you make someone’s day (or at least their morning) A button that lets you make someone’s day (or at least their morning) Elevator buttons can sometimes be fickle things — confusing ...

Do "self-cleaning" elevator buttons really work? Without rigorous independent studies, experts say it's hard to verify claims of "self-cleaning" or "antiviral" surfaces that have popped up during the ...

For obvious reasons, hospitals are a hotspot for germ exposure, which can increase the risk of infection for those making a visit by up to 10 percent, according to a recent study. What might be ...

After Trapped In An Elevator premiered last week, we started hearing from viewers who disagreed with one of our on-screen experts about a quirk of elevator operation: the door-close button. Does it ...

People are finding all kinds of ingenious ways to avoid touching things in public as the coronavirus continues to spread. Shops are asking people to order for pick-up, roving bots are delivering food, ...

It’s no secret that hospitals can be germ factories, but the extent of it has just been explored in a new Canadian study that found hospital elevators, of all places, harbor the most bacteria that can ...