China is testing a maglev vacuum train designed to reach speeds of up to 1,000 km/h, faster than many commercial flights. This video explores how the technology works, why it differs from Hyperloop, ...

Etihad Rail, the developer and operator of the UAE National Railway Network, has joined hands with IronLev, a high-tech Italian company, for a first-of-its-kind magnetic levitation (maglev) trial in ...

Newton County Schools announced the winners of the NCS Elementary District Science and Engineering Fair. According to ...

Peer-reviewed paper sheds light on Chinese research team’s sonic breakthrough, achieved by ‘listening’ to system’s power ...

Currently, the bullet train (Shinkansen) is the fastest way to travel this distance, taking around 2 hours and 30 minutes on ...

Conventional conveyor systems have served manufacturing for decades, but their mechanical limits become more visible at higher speeds. Wear, friction and vibration increase with velocity. Belts ...

Dr. Shech is a professor of philosophy who specializes in the philosophy of science. As popular mistrust of expert opinion grows, we increasingly encounter the following skeptical argument about ...

A major international review has upended long-held ideas about how top performers are made. By analyzing nearly 35,000 elite achievers across science, music, chess, and sports, researchers found that ...

T he last two decades have not been kind to science studies. Already bruised and battered by the “science wars” of the 1990s, by the 2000s sociologists of science — who had long argued that science ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year Joe Spring, ...

Kid lit experts weigh in on some of the year’s best science titles. Plus, what to look for when choosing a book for the child in your life. Are you hoping to inspire a young reader in your life with ...

When the United States faced the looming threat of World War II in the 1930s, it bet big on science — and won. The nation invested billions of dollars in research at universities and in industry. That ...