This is the first in a series of articles about amazing technologies that promised to change the world but which did no such thing.

Chinese engineers recently announced a prototype maglev train had successfully reached speeds of up to 650 kilometers per hour.

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.

Japan's magnetic levitation (maglev) train has reached a record test speed of 310 mph (500 km/h), capturing global attention ...

Chinese engineers have developed porous buffers that fit into tunnel mouths to reduce low‑frequency shock waves by as much as 96 percent, a result that engineers said removed a major technical barrier ...

High-speed rail has always been more than transport—it’s a symbol of national pride. For decades, China, Japan and France ...

Italian firm Ironlev claims to have completed the first-ever maglev test on an existing train track — and has the footage to prove it.

A graphic stating that the upcoming Maglev train project in Japan costs less than the upcoming ropeway in Varanasi has been ...

A proposed high-speed train that would have linked Baltimore to Washington in minutes will not happen now, after the Federal Railroad Administration turned it down.

If this new maglev tech that China is developing pans out, it ought to be moving at anywhere from two to three times the fastest trains in the world today.

In February of this year, we reported on the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation, and its phase one testing of a low-vacuum-tube hyperloop-style maglev ultra-high-speed (UHS) train ...