China's new high-speed train doesn't roll along railways, it flies through tubes. There are hopes it will one day connect cities and villages across the country, running at speeds of up to 4,000 ...

KAWASAKI--A section of a tunnel for a magnetic-levitation bullet train service that is under construction 90 meters below ground was shown to the media on Jan. 15. The Chuo Shinkansen Line, which ...

A blink and you will miss it test ride on the maglev Chuo Shinkansen Line offers some idea of the potential of traveling at 500 kph. Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) provided a trial run for ...

A proposed high-speed train from Baltimore to Washington would harm a national park, a national wildlife refuge, the Chesapeake Bay and numerous nearby communities — and charge expensive ticket prices ...

Magnetic levitation, or maglev, technology has been around since the 1940s, but it's only now coming into focus as a means of ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Europe is very close to making a huge move for its railway industry. A test by Italian ...

When we look back to the 1970s it is often in a light of somehow a time before technology, a time when analogue was still king, motor vehicles had carburettors, and telephones still had rotary dials.

Advances in rocket acceleration to supersonic speeds before ignition are part of plan to create hub of private rocket ...

In a bid to disrupt the United States’ long-held dominance in space exploration, China is quietly advancing a radical new rocket launch system – powered not by roaring engines but by ...