We just love a happy accident, especially scientific breakthroughs. A new energy source floating in every American city has ...

From a classic snack to a life-saving medicine, here are some of the serendipitous inventions that have changed the world we ...

Everyone knows who Alexander Fleming is. But what nobody knows is that he actually failed to turn his discovery of penicillin ...

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The ‘Penicillin Girls’ Made One of the World’s Most Life-Saving Discoveries Possible The true, forgotten and sometimes-stinky history of the cohort who took Alexander Fleming’s innovation ...

As part of celebrations to mark 100 years since the discovery of penicillin, a mural to Alexander Fleming has been unveiled in Darvel.

We don’t often think of fungi in pharma, but that is, of course, where penicillin comes from. The antibiotic substance earned three of its discoverers — Alexander Fleming, Howard Florey and ...

The sandy-looking, greenish mold in question—which is preserved within a glass medallion—is a specimen of the fungus that led to the discovery of penicillin.

Fleming created the medallion as a gift for his niece and inscribed it with the message: "The mold that made penicillin / Alexander Fleming." ...