This breakthrough allows researchers to explore how brain cells interact and communicate without using animals in experiments. Future advances could make these organoids valuable tools for studying ...

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 ...

Hughes penned the script in just two days while also working on The Breakfast Club. In fact, both films are set at Shermer High, and John Kapelos plays Carl the janitor in both of them. He also used ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hughes adapted the screenplay for Weird Science from the EC Comics anthology series of the same name. Most issues of the comic featured four self-contained stories, giving readers a variety of options ...

Anthony Michael Hall has raised generations of kids and teens with movies like Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and Weird Science. As just a kid himself when he was cast in those iconic John ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook In Weird Science, two nerdy teens named Gary (Anthony Michael Hall) and Wyatt (Ilan Michael-Smith) ...

Iconic '80s 'Weird Science' Stars Commemorate 40th Anniversary of Beloved Hit Film originally appeared on Parade. The stars of John Hughes' iconic film Weird Science are celebrating the film's 40-year ...

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, ...

It's "risk week" at Weird Science: the cardiac risks of sex, the dietary risks of church, and the geographic risks of being buried in an avalanche, along with other strange tales of from the front ...

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 ...