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A possible GPS quest turned into a walk that a mom with baby stroller could do when I went looking recently for the balancing rocks of the Metolius River. The Sisters Ranger District of the Deschutes ...

It's not the rocks' balancing act that is perplexing, said Lisa Grant Ludwig, a scientist who presented this puzzle to colleagues this week here at the annual meeting of the Seismological Society of ...

Idaho's Balanced Rock is in a county park near Buhl. (Terry Richard/The Oregonian/2009) Oregon has some balancing rocks near Lake Billy Chinook, but they don't have quite the same zip as some of the ...

Last spring, I saw a strange sight on the Conestoga River in Lancaster County Central Park. Someone had taken more than a dozen rocks and arranged them into a spiral shape, twisting clockwise in the ...

If you know Peter Juhl, it’s probably not surprising that his cell phone background shows seven rocks that sit perfectly balanced in a curved tower, seemingly impossibly perched upon a Lake Superior ...

LAMBERTVILLE — Nick Cepparulo spends most mornings and evenings playing with rocks. Before and after work, the 32-year-old is often outside, balancing the rocks, one atop another, into pillar-like ...

COLORADO — Here in Colorado, there is an artist that creates mind-bending sculptures from loose rocks and whose only tools are patience and the pull of gravity. Michael Grab started stacking rocks in ...

A dazzlingly clear morning and I am standing on a rock-strewn, deserted beach in Dorset. Behind me, in this beautiful bay, a lush cliff face sprouts 1,000 different shades of green. Bliss you might ...

Scientists from Rosetta’s OSIRIS team have discovered an extraordinary formation on the larger lobe of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in the Aker region. From a group of three boulders, the largest ...

The researchers spent 10 years collecting measurements of balancing rocks US scientists say they have solved the riddle of why a collection of balancing rocks near the San Andreas fault has never been ...