The story of the bird and the engineer. How the kingfisher inspired the design of a train. The 500 series Shinkansen, also known as bullet train, is one of the fastest in the world. It is also ...

Listen to 30 Animals That Made Us Smarter to hear more about the kingfisher and the bullet train. Digital producers: Jennifer Green and Anna Doble; Animator: Jules Bartl.

He got his one-way ticket the night before for $100. Traveler shares pro tips after riding aboard next-gen high-speed train: ...

Inspired by the kingfisher's beak, the bullet train's elongated nose design revolutionizes high-speed rail. This innovation mitigates sonic booms in tunnels by streamlining airflow, enhancing ...

When the bullet train was first shown to the world in 1964 it was praised as a triumph of engineering. However, a major design flaw was produced when the trains would leave tunnels. Pushpa 2 ...

In the 1990s, engineer Eiji Nakatsu drew inspiration for a redesign of Japan’s high-speed bullet train from the slender profile of a kingfisher’s beak. Its latest iteration looks like a quite ...

The biggest stretch in Shinji Higuchi’s follow-up to the 1975 Japanese film “The Bullet Train” is that a bureaucracy comes together effectively to try and alleviate a disaster. Following an ...

Japan's bullet train used to BOOM when travelling through tunnels. But an engineer fixed the problem after being inspired by a kingfisher. The kingfisher and the bullet train (listen on BBC Sounds ...