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 children ...

Well that's exactly what happened on 28 September 1928, when Sir Alexander Fleming, a Scottish microbiologist, found a substance called penicillin that transformed the history of medicine.

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Archive footage of Sir Alexander Fleming demonstrating how he discovered the world’s first antibiotic, penicillin. Fleming discovered the Staphylococcus bacterium could not grow near the ...

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In 1928, physician and microbiologist Alexander Fleming returned from holiday to find a petri dish of Staphylococcus bacteria covered in mould, which, he was astonished to note, stopped the ...

BIDWELL, Ohio. (WSAZ) - Two Ohio veterans were honored Monday. Abbyshire Place, an Optalis & Rehabilitation Center, honored ...

Kirsten Fleming is The Post's features columnist, writing on a variety of topics across pop culture, sports and politics. Previously, she was a senior features reporter covering the intersection ...

As a new film exploring her life is announced, why does a patron saint of France remain such an object of cultural ...

Voter registration is breaking records as Election Day approaches, particularly among young people, many of whom are first-time voters. On Tuesday's National Voter Registration Day more than ...

For decades, young Americans formed the lifeblood of the nation’s largest cities. Now, they’re leaving big metro areas in droves and powering growth in small towns and rural areas. Since the ...