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 ...

While Hall was established as the '80s nerd extraordinaire thanks to his roles in the Hughes classics Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club, Mitchell-Smith wasn't as well-known, and the comic ...

Weird Science was a 1985 film by John Hughes that asked: what would two high-school boys do with an all-powerful magic-wielding sex goddess if they could create one on their computer? It’s a concept ...

There’s a lot of madcap stuff going down in the climactic party scene of John Hughes ’ classic sci-fi comedy Weird Science, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some scientists are working to tackle climate change or cure cancer, but others are more focused on figuring out if time travel really would follow Back to the Future rules. From where “love” is felt ...

Host David Kestenbaum talks with physicist Robert Ehrlich about his book, Nine Crazy Ideas in Science: A Few Might Even Be True. Ehrlich goes to the edge of science in his book, considering the ...