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This Week in Research: Death Valley Mystery Stones Solved!

For years, Death Valley’s “sailing stones” attracted visitors and puzzled scientists. In a remote area of the national park, large stones move across an arid playa leaving tell-tale tracks behind, some as long as a football field — and no one could explain what force propelled them. Some blamed “magnetism”; others, aliens. Previous experiments ruled […]

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