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BUFFALO, N.Y. — Separate two superconductors with a thin layer of material and something strange happens. Their superconductivity — a property driven by paired electrons that allows electricity to ...

In fiction, magic makes levitation easy. With a simple swish-and-flick of his wand, Ron Weasley yanks a troll’s club high above its head in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Through graceful ...

A group of MIT physicists recently discovered that carbon stacked in a particular way behaves like an unconventional superconductor. Superconductors are critical to current and future technological ...

Germany’s federal railway authority has issued the European country’s first license for public magnetic levitation (maglev) train operation, in a major milestone for the nascent technology’s use.

Sara Tenenbaum is the Senior Digital Producer for CBS News Chicago covering breaking, local and community news in Chicago. She previously worked as a digital producer and senior digital producer for ...

LOS ANGELES - 1959: Actors Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon in a scene from 'Some Like It Hot' (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) The last time I traveled via overnight train was Rome to ...

The science behind a bullet train's incredible speed has advanced to the point that they no longer need wheels to stay on the tracks. There are some magnetic trains that do use rubber wheels until ...

Canadian Pacific Kansas City Railroad's holiday train, a locomotive and cars adorned with thousands of lights, will once again pass through Michigan this weekend, providing opportunities for those in ...