
Mindy Weisberger
Mindy Weisberger is an editor at Scholastic and a former Live Science channel editor and senior writer. She has reported on general science, covering climate change, paleontology, biology and space. Mindy studied film at Columbia University; prior to Live Science she produced, wrote and directed media for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Her videos about dinosaurs, astrophysics, biodiversity and evolution appear in museums and science centers worldwide, earning awards such as the CINE Golden Eagle and the Communicator Award of Excellence. Her writing has also appeared in Scientific American, The Washington Post and How It Works Magazine. She is the author of the book "Rise of the Zombie Bugs: The Surprising Science of Parasitic Mind Control," published by Hopkins Press.
Latest articles by Mindy Weisberger

Do animals have friends?
By Mindy Weisberger published
Friendship is a key component of human social relationships. Is this also true for animals?

How to make a solar eclipse viewer to safely watch the total solar eclipse on April 8
By Mindy Weisberger last updated
Don't have a pair of eclipse glasses to view the April 8 total solar eclipse? No sweat; you can make a safe and simple DIY eclipse viewer with a box, some tinfoil, and a few household craft supplies.

What's the difference between deductive reasoning and inductive reasoning?
By Alina Bradford, Mindy Weisberger, Nicoletta Lanese last updated
Deductive reasoning and inductive reasoning are easy to mix up. Learn what the difference is and see examples of each type of scientific reasoning.

Why don't people have tails?
By Mindy Weisberger last updated
Scientists recently found that a so-called jumping gene may have jumped ship millions of years ago, and taken our tails with it.

James Webb Space Telescope: Origins, design and mission objectives
By Andrew May last updated
Reference NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has launched and it's the most powerful in history, giving us the deepest ever view into our universe.

What is Juneteenth?
By Mindy Weisberger last updated
Juneteenth is a federally-recognized American holiday observed on June 19. It is also known as Emancipation Day and Black Independence Day. In 2023, it falls on a Monday.

Manhattanhenge: What makes New York City's iconic sunset so special?
By Denise Chow last updated
Manhattanhenge, a phenomenon when the setting sun is perfectly aligned with Manhattan's grid-patterned streets, occurs twice a year with a full sunset, and twice a year with a half sunset.

Epic 11-foot-tall sea level rise drove Vikings out of Greenland
By Mindy Weisberger published
Climate change that led to sea level rise and severe coastal flooding could explain why the Vikings abandoned their Greenland settlements.

Strange love: 13 animals with truly weird courtship rituals
By Mindy Weisberger published
For Valentine's Day, Live Science gathers together some of the more extravagant and outlandish courtship rituals in the animal kingdom.

Noodle-necked swimming dinosaur may have been a diving predator like a penguin
By Mindy Weisberger published
Scientists recently discovered the first non-avian theropod dinosaur with a streamlined body similar to that of penguins, auks and other modern diving birds.

Tiny 'bramble snout' fossils found near Wales were 'weird wonders' that predated the dinosaurs
By Mindy Weisberger published
Scientists recently unearthed fossils of strange ocean creatures that lived about 460 million years ago and were unlike any animal alive today.

Octopuses fling shells and sand at each other, and scientists caught their battles on video
By Mindy Weisberger last updated
Watch debris from the sea bottom fly, as octopuses hurl sand and other projectiles at their neighbors in an Australian bay.

19th-century whaling shipwreck identified in the Gulf of Mexico
By Mindy Weisberger last updated
Scientists have discovered the long-lost shipwreck of a whaling vessel that sank during a storm in 1836.

Nazi bombs destroyed a priceless 'sea monster' fossil. Scientists just found its long-lost plaster copies.
By Mindy Weisberger published
More than 70 years ago, during a WWII air raid in the U.K., German bombs destroyed a rare fossil of an ichthyosaur. Scientists just found long-lost plaster casts of the priceless skeleton.

Spy Satellite Images Uncover Staggering Mount Everest Ice Loss
By Mindy Weisberger last updated
Declassified spy-satellite photos show that the glaciers near Mount Everest are shrinking more than expected.

Bizarre aye-ayes use spooky, bony finger for nose picking
By Mindy Weisberger published
A new study in aye-ayes is the first to review nose picking in primates and reports the first evidence of the habit in lemurs.

King Tut's father revealed in stunning facial reconstruction
By Mindy Weisberger last updated
An astonishingly lifelike facial reconstruction reveals the face of an enigmatic mummy who may have been the biological father of the renowned pharaoh Tutankhamen.

Mosquito larvae launch their heads like tiny harpoons to nab prey, video reveals
By Mindy Weisberger last updated
Researchers have captured the first-ever footage of mosquito larvae flinging their heads at prey in deadly hunting strikes.

8 Reasons Why We Love Tardigrades
By Mindy Weisberger last updated
Whether you know them as water bears or moss piglets, tardigrades are microscopic bundles of awesomeness.

30-Year Deep Freeze Just Puts Tardigrade in the Mood
By Mindy Weisberger last updated
Two tardigrades and one egg that spent the past three decades cooling their jets in a researchers' freezer were recently resuscitated.

Key to Tardigrades' 'Superpowers' Identified in Their DNA
By Mindy Weisberger last updated
A tardigrade's unique genetic makeup fuels the creature's remarkable resuscitation superpowers.

If We Live in a Multiverse, Where Are These Worlds Hiding?
By Mindy Weisberger last updated
What is the scientific basis for the popular science-fiction convention of multiple universes?

Everybody Freeze! The Science of the Polar Bear Club
By Mindy Weisberger last updated
On New Year's Day on Brooklyn, New York's Coney Island beach, the sound of chattering teeth will fill the air, as thousands of people gather for a ceremonial wintry dip in the Atlantic Ocean.
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