Scott Peterson

In over a year of conflict between Israel and Iran's militia allies, a key brake on a regional war has been each side's fear of what the other could do. Does Israel's latest strike mean that brake is failing?

Lebanon is all too familiar with the heavy cost civilians bear in war, including internal conflicts. Now, once again, as Israel pursues Hezbollah, people are dying or displaced from their homes, caught in the crossfire of a war that is not theirs.

Dear Mom: I know it's been 30 years since you walked the earth with your trusty cane, but you are not going to believe our world today.

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Hezbollah has long assured its Shiite Lebanese base that when the time came, it would robustly defend Lebanon and punish Israel. Now, amid another destructive war, many supporters are losing faith. Can it win them back?

Micrometeorites are estimated to represent the main part of the present flux of extraterrestrial matter found on the Earth's surface and provide valuable samples to probe the interplanetary medium. Here, we describe large and representative collections of micrometeorites currently available to the scientific community. These include Antarctic collections from surface ice and snow, as well as glacial sediments from the eroded top of nunataks—summits outcropping from the icesheet—and moraines. Collections extracted from deep-sea sediments (DSS) produced a large number of micrometeorites, in particular, iron-rich cosmic spherules that are rarer in other collections. Collections from the old and stable surface of the Atacama Desert show that finding large numbers of micrometeorites is not restricted to polar regions or DSS. The advent of rooftop collections marks an important step into involving citizen science in the study of micrometeorites, as well as providing potential sampling locations over all latitudes to explore the modern flux. We explore their strengths of the collections to address specific scientific questions and their potential weaknesses. The future of micrometeorite research will involve the finding of large fossil micrometeorite collections and benefit from recent advances in sampling cosmic dust directly from the air.

Caption Joanna Nelson, award-winning film maker and Constructor University alumna (Source: Vannel Productions, C.A.)

Handed out once every year by Constructor University, the prestigious DAAD award (German Academic Exchange Service) recognizes excellence in academic achievements and an outstanding commitment to social engagement. This year, International Relations: Politics and History student Camila Velez Martinez received the award during the Annual Opening Ceremony in Bremen.

My neighbors are wondering why I tiptoed from my garage Saturday. This is the time of year when I take a deep breath and hope I don't hear anything crash.

Before dawn on Wednesday, Israeli and Hezbollah militia guns fell silent as a U.S.-brokered ceasefire took hold, capping more than 13 months of