“X-ray beams are used everywhere, but since the discovery of X-rays in 1895, scientists have not been able to use them to ...

The annual Nobel Prizes must “stand up” for scientific learning and free inquiry in an age when both are under growing threat ...

To be awarded an official English Heritage plaque, the proposed recipient (nominated by members of the public) must have died ...

Bacteria have mostly been portrayed as villains that make us sick, but the Human Microbiome Project showed that we share our body with an astounding number of bacteria.

My Opa summed it up when he told me after another disaster in my life, “Well, Robert, you got screwed and you never got ...

Vivian Meng in Context Window Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. Yesterday OpenAI released native image generation in ChatGPT-4o. We’ve been playing around with it ...

Marie Curie — the first-ever double Nobel winner — and Sir Alexander Fleming, who discovered the life-saving antibiotic penicillin. Stjärne, the Nobel Foundation’s first female executive ...

The second was penicillin, a discovery of an impact possibly unparalleled by any other in medicine. After Alexander Fleming’s initial discovery of the penicillium mould’s antibiotic properties ...

Alexander Monro, appointed the first Professor ... to be the catalyst for a breakthrough in life-saving medication. Fleming found that his "mold juice" was capable of killing a wide range of ...

Some notoriously difficult to treat infections may not be as resistant to antibiotics as has been thought, according to new research using a microfluidic device that more closely duplicates the fluid ...