A breakthrough in high-speed rail design could make the world's fastest trains safer, quieter, and greener. Chinese ...

The evolution of high-speed trains has revolutionized rail travel, pushing the limits of speed, sustainability, and ...

Researchers in China say they have found a way to eliminate one of the biggest obstacles facing magnetic levitation (maglev) trains traveling at extreme speeds — the deafening “tunnel boom.” If ...

Federal officials cancelled $26 million in grants that would have funded a proposed high-speed train project between ...

This is the first in a series of articles about amazing technologies that promised to change the world but which did no such ...

In August 2011, I was fortunate enough to ride on the then brand-new Hayabusa bullet train, which operates on the line ...

Maglev train railways continue to be a rarity due to costs – even the record-breaking Japanese one is yet to be run as a passenger service. Its expected start date is currently unknown.

Students utilize computational thinking and the engineering design process to apply the concepts to the design an efficient, fully functional scale model maglev train. What Students Figure Out By the ...

Maybe. The Washington Post reports that The Northeast Maglev, a 25-employee company, is working to bring a maglev train to the region. And already it has raised $50 million in private investment ...

A maglev train could carry people from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore in 15 minutes. It could quite literally change the infrastructure of transportation in the United States and not just in Maryland.

New maglev prototype: China has unveiled the prototype for its sleek new magnetic levitation (maglev) train. Its makers say it will be capable of traveling at speeds of 600km/h (about 372 miles/hour).