In the Tuscan countryside just outside Siena, a historic laboratory is helping Novartis in its bid to become the world's premier vaccine company.

Free accessAir bubbles trapped in the Antarctic ice sheet could yield precious information about Earth's climate more than a million years ago. But to access this record, scientists first have to climb one of the coldest peaks on Earth.

The rocks of Antarctica are obscured literally, and sometimes scientifically, by its ice. But drilling efforts are now showing what we can learn from the hard stuff.