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A powerful and dangerous late season storm system has generated more than 50 tornadoes and killed at least 3 people across the US midwest, and will continue to develop over the evening hours. The town of Washington, Illinois has been effectively flattened, and the National Weather Service is warning that millions remain at risk as the system moves east. Chicago is in the range of the enormous system, which stretches from the middle south into the northern Midwest and is expected to sweep into the mid-Atlantic states within hours.

Stay ahead of the weather with the Unknowncountry Climate Watch section, where violent autumn storms were predicted for the US last summer.

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Do animals possess the same level of consciousness as humans? Unknown Country explores the possibility that "dumb animals" may be as sentient – or even more so – than humans. Because we are unable to communicate directly with animal species, the common human perception is that animal intelligence is somehow inferior to our own. Yet there are few ‘animal-lovers’ who cannot relate a tale telling of a connection with an animal, living or dead, which has positively impacted upon their lives in some way, or maybe even saved it.
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Invisibility cloaking is no longer the stuff of science fiction: two researchers in The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering have demonstrated an effective invisibility cloak that is thin, scalable and adaptive to different types and sizes of objects.

Professor George Eleftheriades and PhD student Michael Selvanayagam have designed and tested a new approach to cloaking—by surrounding an object with small antennas that collectively radiate an electromagnetic field. The radiated field cancels out any waves scattering off the cloaked object. Their paper ‘Experimental demonstration of active electromagnetic cloaking’ appears today in the journal Physical Review X.
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The triangle formation seen here is a typical nighttime UFO formation. Prior to her abduction, Corrina Saebels observed such a formation in the sky over British Columbia, and many others have seen such formations, especially people reporting subsequent close encounters. In this case, the three lights fade away one by one at the end of the observation. The lights are not on the corners of a solid object because stars can be seen behind them. Probable unknown.
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