Forty years ago, Voyager imaged Uranus and presented the world with a new mystery. Upon further inspection, it may have just ...

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 ...

There's a certain logic to how human civilization operates. Some say it's predetermined by physics, others point to ...

Despite being one of the most promising places to explore for signs of life, "special regions" and "uncertain regions" may be ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The nature documentary series uses new research and photorealistic CGI to bring the huge, bizarre animals of the Ice Age back ...

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 ...

One of the strangest mysteries about our Earth is the presence of two dense, giant blobs inexplicably clustered above the planet's core. Now, new models might reveal where they have come from, and ...

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 ...