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Diehard cocktail aficionados swear by serving specific drinks in the correct glass. I wonder what they’ll make of…
Apr 20 2016
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Nov 13 2015
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Faster trains are finally coming to the United States, in cities like Los Angeles, Miami, Houston, and Las Vegas.…
Nov 9 2015
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This weekend, millions were approved in funding for a high-speed rail project linking Baltimore and Washington, D.C.…
Oct 8 2015
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The Subway, the El, the Tube, the Métro: Trains have been transporting humans around cities since 1863. But too many…
Sep 24 2015
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In 1964, the last time Tokyo hosted the Summer Olympics, the nation revealed one of the biggest mic drops in…
Aug 19 2015
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Magnets. You already know what they are and everything about them. Or do you? Magnets are crucial to many more…
Jun 2 2015
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High-speed trains—which can hit 300 miles per hour or more—are the ultimate example of how futuristic engineering…
Apr 17 2015
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The Central Japan Railway Company’s maglev bullet train hit 366 miles per hour yesterday in a test, a record-setting…
Dec 3 2014
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The most inefficient part of a gearing system is also its most vital: the teeth. While they allow the systems to,…
Nov 19 2014
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The world's fastest train – a maglev vehicle operated by the Central Japan Railway Company capable of speeds in…
Nov 18 2014
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The world's fastest mag-lev train, the 311 mph Series Lo prototype from JR Tokai, made its first public run on…
Jul 1 2014
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SkyTran—a NASA Space Act company—is finally building a pilot of its computer-controlled, two-person high speed…
May 9 2014
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A research team in China just successfully tested a blisteringly fast transportation concept: super-maglev, a high…
Jul 29 2013
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Tel Aviv is set to begin construction on the world’s first magnetically levitating skyTran system of mass transit.…
Nov 28 2012
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The fastest train in America, the Amtrak Acela line running from Boston and DC tops out at 110MPH. Sure, that's way…
Mar 13 2012
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Today in grandiose space ambitions that would make even Newt Gingrich balk: a $60 billion, 1,000-mile long, 12-mile…
Mar 11 2012
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This is Startram, a proposed launch system that would use magnetic levitation trains, a 1000-mile tunnel, and a…
Feb 23 2011
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Andrew A. Kucher [right] with Anastas I. Mikoyan [left] (Life Magazine, 1959)
Dec 10 2009
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The car's come a long way since Ford started mass production 100 years ago, but science fiction takes transportation…