Japan is building a train that can hit 503 km/h and cut Tokyo to Osaka down to just 67 minutes. The secret isn’t a bigger engine - it’s superconducting magnets chilled to extreme temperatures so the ...

Few would deny that German weaponry was often decades ahead of the Allies... producing jet fighters, cruise missiles, super heavy tanks and even long-range ballistic missiles; it being the sheer ...

Birds as Flying Machines A sequel to the article on the aerodynamics of birds in the April, 1952, issue of this magazine. Among the remarkable adaptations birds have made to life in the air are high ...