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Physicists may have cracked the case of “Zen” stones balanced on ice pedestals

Enlarge / A laboratory reproduction of the Zen stone phenomenon in a lyophilizer. (credit: Nicolas Taberlet / Nicolas Plihon) Visit the Small Sea of Lake Baikal in Russia during the winter and you’ll likely see an unusual phenomenon: a flat rock balanced on a thin pedestal of ice, akin to stacking Zen stones common to […]