Google honours the brave spirit of Madame Marie Curie with a doodle. Madame, we salute you!

Typhoon Roke Has Hit Japan! Initial reports indicate four dead. Winds of 100 mph speed continue ploughing inland towards the cities of Fukushima and Tokyo.

The situation at the Fukushima Dai’chi nuclear power plant of Japan has just been reported to be worse than previously estimated, but still nowhere close to Chernobyl. A couple of days back, on 12th April, the Japanese Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency reviewed the situation and updated their previous rating of 5 to a maximum of 7 on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INRES).