In China, a new “sky train” system glides 33 feet above street level without using any electricity or fuel at all. The 2,600-foot-long, 88-passenger Red Rail in southern China’s Xingguo country is the ...

Maglev bullet trains promise a future where steel wheels and clattering rails give way to smooth, floating speed. Yet the reality on today’s tracks is more nuanced, with some systems gliding entirely ...

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Maglev trains in Japan literally float on magnets at speeds over 300 miles per hour and they're still trying to get off the ground in the U.S. The hope is that they come sooner, ...

The country that invented the bullet train now has something much faster: the floating bullet train. It’s called a “maglev” train, for “magnetic levitation.” Instead of wheels: magnets. Instead of an ...

In this three week storyline unit, students investigate a maglev train and the electromagnetic forces that cause a maglev train to levitate and provide the source of propulsion for the train. The ...

The Transrapid in Shanghai has set a new world for commercial railway systems of 501 kmh (311 mph). The maglev (magnetic levitation) train, which has no wheels, axels, engine or transmission, broke ...

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 ...

LATHEN, Germany – A high-tech train that floats on powerful magnetic fields smashed into a maintenance car on an elevated test track Friday, killing 23 people and injuring 10 – the first fatalities on ...

At 603 km/h, the new maglev train sets a record and changes how distance is experienced. The remarkable part is not just that the maglev train hits 603 km/h, but that it appears completely normal and ...