What began as an inquiring observation of a bird ultimately transformed high-speed rail design. Though bullet trains gain hugely from such sophisticated aerodynamic engineering, city train ...

The 39-inch serpent tangled itself on an overhead power line, electrocuting itself and causing delays of over an hour and a ...

However, the most striking feature of the bullet train is not its speed but its front end, which is designed to resemble the beak of a bird. Well, this design comes from Japanese engineer Eiji ...

Nakatsu and his team started to rethink the bullet train's nose. Instead of the usual blunt front, they proposed a long, tapered, and aerodynamic nose that copied the bird's beak. The new design ...