Elon Musk's ambitious Hyperloop transportation concept is now up at JumpStartFund, a collaborative startup platform that hopes to refine the idea and get it paid for. Nick Statt was a staff reporter ...

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 ...

Getting from place to place has always been a problem, and problems tend to inspire innovation. Cars, trains, planes, and even the humble boat exist because someone needed a better way of getting ...

After a year of close collaboration between Virgin Hyperloop, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), and Kilo Design, the Pegasus Pod has become the first manned and fully functional system for Hyperloop travel ...

WEST LAFAYETTE — A team of Purdue University students has won the chance to turn its design for a capsule that would move people at high speed into a working device. The Purdue team was among 30 ...

Think back to a bygone era of Elon Musk — when he talked less about blue checks on Twitter and more about blue-sky ideas to colonize Mars, reuse rockets, and tackle climate change. One of his ...

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies is a new company recruiting those interested in realizing Musk’s dream of a next-generation ground transportation system costing $6 billion, which could ...

Just when you may have thought the idea of the Hyperloop was dead, one of the largest companies working on the technology has unveiled how it plans to use the system to “revolutionize shipping.” That ...

Scenes from the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Design Competition Weekend, Friday afternoon, Jan. 29, 2016, at Texas A&M University, in College Station, Texas. (Timothy Hurst/The Eagle) ...

I like the pursuit of learning and experimenting. But in my opinion the push for mass transit is ridiculous. Tax payers end up paying for it, which is me. I'd rather someone focus on ways to control ...

Hmm, does it violate the known laws of physics? If not, I don't see the harm in people spending their time/money/effort on realizing a "cool sounding" idea, as you say yourself. And part of that idea ...