Whenever Elon Musk hypes up his Hyperloop idea—a conceptual transportation system that will whisk passengers to their destinations at speeds up to 700 miles per hour—he makes it sound like the most ...

New Yorkers have a history of experimenting with pneumatic tubes—both for mail delivery (seen above) and public transit—but only one version ever really stuck: An automated vacuum trash collection ...

Security researchers have detailed vulnerabilities in the system controlling the pneumatic tube networks used in thousands of hospitals around the world, which could allow hackers to disrupt the ...