The invention of the wheel was a transformative ... influenced human history would be complete. Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming found a mold in a Petri dish in 1928 that appeared to eradicate ...

Alexander Fleming was born in a remote, rural part of Scotland. The seventh of eight siblings and half-siblings, his family worked an 800-acre farm a mile from the nearest house. The Fleming ...

It’s the mycelial spark that touched off an antibiotic revolution. Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming recognized the potential of Penicillium mold when he found it growing in his less ...