Barber then showed that the train is traveling at 301 km/hour (187 miles per hour) and "you can barely even notice it, it's ...

Think Japan and you’ll almost certainly think of its streamlined Shinkansen bullet trains. But China is now the undisputed ...

China is racing to build a new kind of train that does not just rival jetliners, it threatens to redefine what “high speed” even means on land. Engineers are now testing a magnetic levitation system ...

As I rocketed out of Shanghai aboard a train at nearly 200 miles an hour, the speed reduced the trees outside my window to greenish blurs. I had the out-of-body sense that I was fast-forwarding my way ...

A breakthrough in high-speed rail design could make the world's fastest trains safer, quieter, and greener. Chinese researchers have found a way to slash the deafening "tunnel boom" shock wave caused ...

A train pulls out of Shangrao station, where the author changed trains on his way to the city of Chongqing. As I rocketed out of Shanghai aboard a train at nearly 200 miles an hour, the speed reduced ...