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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Kelly LeBrock was one of the hottest women in Hollywood for a time in the 1980s. After rising to prominence as a model in the '70s and early '80s, her bombshell roles in a pair of comedies — 1984's ...

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James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Were you Seen at the Weird Science Halloween Party on Oct. 25, 2025, at Union Station in Albany? The event was a benefit for The RNA Institute’s Bioinformatics Summer Program. Were you Seen at the ...

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 ...