Five years ago, billionaire Elon Musk open-sourced his plan for a supersonic train-like thing. Today it's still a work in progress. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. On Sunday, November 8, two people sat in a pod in a tube in Nevada ...

A team of students from Germany sent a carbon-plastic pod whizzing through a tube at 201 mph (324 km/h) last weekend, securing the top spot in Elon Musk's second Hyperloop competition. Musk, the ...

The company behind an experimental mode of travel announced a new speed milestone at its test track near North Las Vegas. Virgin Hyperloop One hit about 240 mph with a travel circuit that magnetically ...

Elon Musk's tube transport concept unveiled a year ago remains just that: a concept. It also proves that even when the Internet falls in love, radical ideas rarely exit the realm of fiction. Nick ...

How feasible is a 700-mph hyperloop that would send riders in a near-vacuum tube from Laredo to Fort Worth in 48 minutes? Engineers think it’s pretty feasible. Hyperloop, which uses electric ...

Results from a feasibility study on a new form of high-speed transportation between Chicago, Cleveland and Pittsburgh were released by the public-private partnership funding the project on Monday, Dec ...

A team of German students have won the third annual SpaceX Hyperloop competition – their third win in a row – and set a new Hyperloop record in the process. The rest of this article is behind a ...

Hyperloop is Happening: The Mad Science Behind Elon Musk’s Supersonic Tube Travel The Tesla and SpaceX founder proposed it — now two of his most trusted collaborators are trying to make it happen. THR ...

Virgin Hyperloop One has released a prototype for a levitating pod that is designed to zoom at speeds as high as 760 mph (1,200 km/h) through a Hyperloop connecting Dubai to Abu Dhabi, according to ...

Elon Musk first described his idea for a futuristic transportation system that would send passenger pods through tubes at speeds of hundreds of miles an hour back in 2013. At the time, the idea of ...

Hyperloop technology is still at a relatively early stage of development, and no one knows just what it will be like to zoom through a long, sealed tube at speeds of several hundred miles per hour.