Pastina soup, made with warming broth and tiny pasta stars, has been known by many names in many households, but one of the ...

Made and adapted by generations of women in my family, each of them adding their own twist, it was the first thing I cooked by myself, for myself. It is my Balkan penicillin, my light of home in a ...

Alexander Fleming’s 1928 discovery of a mold with antibacterial properties was only the first serendipitous event on the long road to penicillin as a life-saving drug. Hannah joined The Scientist as ...

Fleming presented his findings in 1929, but they raised little interest. He published a report on penicillin and its potential uses in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology. Fleming worked ...