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After 100 years, we finally know why these desert rocks move

For more than a century, visitors to a remote California lakebed have stared at long, ruler-straight tracks etched into the ...
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The Solved Mystery: Watch the Moment Scientists Caught Death Valley's 'Sailing Stones' Moving

Deep within the unforgiving expanse of the California Desert lies Death Valley, home to one of the world's greatest enduring geological mysteries: the famous Sailing Stones of Racetrack Playa. For ...
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How Do Death Valley’s ‘Sailing Stones’ Move Themselves Across the Desert?

Start at the Furnace Creek visitor center in Death Valley National Park. Drive 50 miles north on pavement, then head west for another 30 miles on bone-rattling gravel roads. During the drive—which ...