The Ig Nobel Prizes are back and, as always, they prove that the intersection of humor and science can sometimes yield the ...

The Ig Nobels were founded in 1991 by Marc Abrahams, editor of satirical magazine Annals of Improbable Research. Previous ...

Weird Science gets it title and premise from an obscure comics anthology, which certainly explains a lot about the movie.

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 ...

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, ...

On this week’s episode of the podcast, Roach tells the host Gilbert Cruz how she comes up with her ideas and what keeps drawing her back to the bizarre, hilarious bits of trivia that the human body ...

Grab your dial-up modem and strap a bra to your head, Weird Science is turning 40. Though beloved by many, it's fair to say that its silliness keeps it a little separate from the ...

Two Indian engineers have won the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize, a quirky science prize, for creating shoe-racks fitted with UV lamps ...

As Weird Science and The Breakfast Club both turn 40 in 2025, Anthony Michael Hall is looking back on his time working on the John Hughes movies Hall tells PEOPLE he's "amazed" that the late prolific ...