As any grade-school science student learned, atoms are often known as the smallest building blocks of matter. And as any popcorn-purchasing moviegoer knows, cinema dominates the biggest screens. But IBM Research Laboratories has now married the two, using real-life atoms to set a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS feat for creating the smallest stop-motion film.

Dubai has ushered in 2014 with more than half a million fireworks spectacle, breaking the world record for the largest such display ever, Guinness World records said today. Ten months in planning, over 500,000 fireworks were used during the display on the New Year's Eve which lasted around six minutes, with Guinness adjudicators on hand to confirm that a new record had been set.

Located at the Traditions Golf Club in Bryan Texas, the larger-than-life gingerbread house officially holds the new Guinness World Record

Many kickers have made 63-yard field goals, but none have nailed it from beyond that. Matt Prater finally has the record to himself with a 64-yarder on Sunday.

David and Janean Richards, a couple living in Canberra, Australia, have decked their house in an astonishing 502,165 lights to raise money for charity and capture the world record for the most lights on a residential property. The display includes 164,000 feet of lights that are synchronized to music by 520 Light-O-Rama channels. The display will be on view through December 26,Throughout the event, the Richards will be raising money for the children’s charity Sids and Kids.

The Richards family used more than 31 miles' worth of LED lights to decorate their home.

A fragile quantum memory state has been held stable at room temperature for a "world record" 39 minutes - overcoming a key barrier to ultrafast computers.

Sultan Kosen, who holds the Guinness World Record for tallest living man at 2.51m, has married 1.73m Merve Dibo.

The 3-year-old French sheepdog performed his record-setting feat in July, wowing his audience in a Marietta, Ga., gym. Norman was given his Guinness certificate on Sunday.

One of the noisiest places on earth is the cockpit of an F-1 race car, directly in front of the engine. The noise level has been measured at 140 decibels, according to Hear-It, a non-profit that raises awareness about hearing issues.

New Yorkers in and around Herald Square watched a crowd gather for an attempt to set the world record for Most People Twerking Simultaneously. Cruz needed to talk for two more hours to break the filibuster record set, in 1957, by Strom Thurmond; the Herald Square twerkers needed two hundred and fifty people, engaged in two minutes of continuous twerking, to make it into the Guinness Book of Records.

London-based contortionist Leilani “Lucky” Franco holds the Guinness world record for the World’s Fastest Human Backbend Walk, moving nearly 66 feet in 10.05 seconds. She says, “Whenever I’m at a party, my friends are always like, ‘Leilani, show people what you can do!’ and I say ok and I do something really weird and everybody gets really shocked. I really like that.”