Scott Peterson

Lebanese displaced from the Dahiyah southern suburbs of Beirut by three weeks of Israeli airstrikes, there and in other parts of Lebanon, still camp for their safety in the central Martyrs Square, on October 13, 2024 in Beirut, Lebanon. Officials say that more than one million people have been forced to flee their homes as Israel targets strongholds and positions of the Iran-backed Shiite Hezbollah militia, such as Dahiyah, in an air campaign that since Sept. 23 has cost more than 1,400 lives in Lebanon.

A great joy of childhood was fall, a time of crisp leaves, sweatshirts, chilly temperatures—and football.

“He's coming!” I shouted nervously, as I lowered my binoculars. “You're kidding me! How does it look?” Nancy asked, rushing to join me at the front window of our home.

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.)