Lab, Camera, Action: Maglev Train

Published: Feb. 3, 2014, 1:23 p.m.

Wheels are so last century. We\u2019ve got a train set which doesn\u2019t have any; it just floats around the track in a billowing cloud of steam. Dr Andrew Steele explains how our superconducting magnetic levitation\u2014or maglev\u2014train really works.