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  • National Weather Service Lead Meteorologist Jim Andersen says parts of Indiana could see potential heavy snowfall – though the storm’s track isn’t certain yet.
  • Wind-pollinated ragweed is often confused with glorious insect-pollinated goldenrod.
  • Most insects fly—but, across millennia, many species have lost the ability. Island dwelling insects have been especially prone to this evolutionary trend.
  • In 2020, a team of American scientists reported the first remotely sensed evidence of the mineral hematite on Earth's moon. The researchers made their discovery with a NASA instrument aboard the Indian space agency's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft orbiting the moon.
  • If you're lucky enough to live where it's sometimes windy and cold, you've probably heard your weatherperson give out two temperatures: the actual temperature outside, and a temperature based on the wind-chill temperature index.