In 2013, Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and Tesla, proposed a new way to get around. He told PandoDaily, "We've got planes, trains, automobiles and boats for getting around earth. But what if there was ...

A team from MIT won the best overall design award in the first round of the Hyperloop pod design contest, held last weekend at Texas A&M University. About 120 teams participated in the event. MIT ...

It’s been a big week for hyperloops. On Friday, a team of students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology unveiled the first public prototype hyperloop pod. The reveal came just two days after ...

Rendering of the winning conceptual design for a Hyperloop pod by a team of MIT students (all images courtesy MIT) In 2013, tech billionaire and “real life Iron Man” Elon Musk first proposed his ...

The first public demonstration of “the hyperloop,” a new propulsion system for high-speed transit, occurred on May 11 in the desert north of Las Vegas. Days later, a team of researchers unveiled a ...

In addition to testing reusable rockets, SpaceX is also coming up with innovative ideas that could affect our everyday lives here on the ground. The company recently held a competition where teams ...

SpaceX Hyperloop Design Weekend closed out today with some clear winners. The massive race to create a pod that will zoom you from point A to point B through a tube in mere minutes instead of hours ...

On a blazing-hot Saturday in May, 20 engineering students walked into MIT’s Edgerton Center and breezed right past a sleek solar car. Throughout the day, no one even glanced at a marvel once hailed as ...

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About 2 dozen teams of students and engineers are creating hyperloop pods to compete and try to achieve the greatest speed and control on the 1-mile track for the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Design ...

Two international university teams clinched top honors for the first test phase of Elon Musk's Hyperloop competition that ran this weekend. The Delft Hyperloop team, of Delft University in the ...

Hyperloop is maybe almost possibly here! But which hyperloop company did that thing this week? And what kind of technology is it using? Does it work? Most importantly, when are we getting one? We have ...