The 1986 film, which saw two teenage boys use the magic of computer science to bring their dream girl to life, celebrated its 40th anniversary on Saturday, Aug. 2 — four decades after first being ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Hughes adapted the screenplay for Weird Science from the EC Comics anthology series of the same ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hughes penned the script in just two days while also working on The Breakfast Club. In fact, both films are set at Shermer High, ...

Science isn’t always serious. Sometimes researchers ask questions that seem silly at first, like why toast lands butter-side down or how ducks stay dry. But these quirky experiments often lead to ...

There are a lot of riffs on Frankenstein, but none more extra than the 1985 cult classic, Weird Science. A wish-fulfillment film filled to the brim with hormones, Weird Science might, at first glance, ...

Oh, 1985, what a year, such weirdness! 2025 is the Weird Science 40th anniversary. Let’s revisit the movie – with techie dreams, awkward teenage fantasies, and, uhh, creating the “perfect woman” (on a ...

EPFL's robotic appendage features fingers that bend both ways and is designed to retrieve objects from spaces too hazardous ...

Bigfoot. Cattle mutilations. Ghosts. UFOs. Experience the weirder, wilder and often overlooked corners of scientific inquiry today at the Mad Science Fair. From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., the Metro State ...

A centuries-old practice of dropping frogs into milk turns out to have scientific truth, amphibian antimicrobial compounds ...

The iconic John Hughes film stared Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Kelly LeBrock, Bill Paxton, Suzanne Snyder, Judie Aronson and Robert Downey Jr. The 1986 film, which saw two teenage boys ...

I’ve just seen a film that is either a brilliant parody of scholarly documentaries or else final proof that I am the stupidest person on Earth. Obviously, I prefer to believe the former — that What ...

Jeff Cleary is in the house. Seen through the swinging doors leading into the kitchen, the chef-owner of Intrigue appears calm and entirely collected. There are seated tables — a few two- and ...