In one of the hottest and driest parts of the world, there is a phenomenon that is most unexpected. At a remote dry lake bed in the world-famous Death.

For more than a century, visitors to a remote California lakebed have stared at long, ruler-straight tracks etched into the mud and wondered how heavy boulders could apparently glide on their own. The ...

A team of Johns Hopkins researchers is using an innovative X-ray imaging approach to reveal how compression reshapes the tiny spaces and stresses within sandstone—findings that could predict how this ...