Travelling by train at speeds close to a commercial jet sounds like the stuff of dreams for busy commuters. Now, China is getting closer to making this a reality for its 1.4 billion citizens. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. China is pushing the boundaries of high-speed rail technology with its ambitious development of maglev trains that could ...

Floating trains have glided closer to Europe after a pioneering trial of magnetic levitation — aka maglev. Italian firm IronLev, which developed the tech, claims to have completed the first-ever ...

Magnetic levitation, or maglev, technology has been around since the 1940s, but it's only now coming into focus as a means of high-speed transit. There are several maglev train systems spread ...

A zero to 60 mph time of just under seven seconds is decent, but not too noteworthy. A zero to 100 mph in the same time would be astounding. But zero to 404 mph? Welcome to the future of trains, as ...

When Maryland Gov. Wes Moore was in Japan expressing amazement at magnetic-levitation train technology, residents in the path of the proposed high-speed train back home were less than impressed. "I ...