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A famous East Lancashire scientist who helped unlock the secrets of the atom is to have a street named after him in his home township. Nuclear physicist Sir Ernest Marsden will be honoured in the name ...

On a remote Arctic island, scientists have swung open the doors of the world’s largest so called doomsday vault and offered a rare look at what humanity has been quietly stashing away for a worst case ...