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 ...

Before the pandemic, there were many reasons to be anxious about taking an elevator — from being crammed in a small space with strangers, to getting stuck between floors. Now, as coronavirus cases ...

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, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (NEXSTAR) – Perhaps no button on Earth is mashed as furiously as the "door close" button in an elevator. The button, usually ...

Amid the coronavirus outbreak, which has so far killed over 1,100 people and infected about 45,000, some people in China have been caught on video bizarrely and disgustingly wiping their spit on ...

HIKONE, Shiga Prefecture--Long before the COVID-19 crisis cast its shadow over the world, a leading manufacturer in this western Japan city began work on developing a touchless elevator that allows ...