Virgin Hyperloop promises a future with transport pods zooming through tubes at hundreds of miles per hour. To get there, it's built a prototype in a Nevada desert. Claire Reilly was a video host, ...

Virgin Hyperloop came to be in June of 2014, promising to revolutionize transit with its concept of pressurized, high-speed pod travel. Now, over $400 million dollars in funding later, the company has ...

In 2012, Tesla Inc. and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. Chief Executive Elon Musk published a proposal outlining a concept called the hyperloop, a futuristic transportation system to carry ...

The Richard Branson-backed company that promised to shake up the future of transportation will now focus on freight, according to the Financial Times. Antonio Ruiz-Camacho was a principal writer ...

Virgin's hyperloop system uses magnetic levitation technology to reduce friction and low-pressure sealed vacuums along the track that minimize air resistance. Virgin Hyperloop Smithsonian's 175th ...

It should have been obvious from the start that Elon Musk’s Hyperloop was just a boy’s own fantasy and could never work.

It’s been almost ten years since Elon Musk brought hyperloop technology back into modern public consciousness with a 2013 research paper. His Space X sponsored The Hyperloop Pod Competition spawning ...