Getting into space is hard, not to mention expensive. Only a few people go every year. What if, instead of rocket propulsion, you could just hop on a space elevator? It sounds far fetched but for 10 ...

American scientists from Penn State University have discovered how to produce ultra-thin diamond nanothreads, a sort of strong carbon nanotubes, which could prove to be stronger and hardier element ...

Five groups of Canadian university students will be visiting Utah this weekend to take part in a NASA prize competition worth half a million dollars, and all they have to do is build an elevator that ...

The space elevator has been called a “stairway to the heavens,” but making one work comes with massive engineering challenges. In this video, I dive into the details - from counterweights to tethers ...

Hitachi is building the world’s fastest elevators in Guangzhou, China. The 530-metre-high Guangzhou CTF Financial Centre, set to be completed in 2016, will have 95 elevators, two of them capable of ...

WINNIPEG &mdash Richardson Pioneer Limited is announces plans to build a new high throughput grain elevator at Huallen, Alberta, located 35 kilometres west of Grande Prairie on Highway 43.