The Paris climate agreement might be lacking, but the former vice president argues that it has at least pointed us in the right direction.Ten years ago this week, at the world premier of An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore was possibly the gloomiest man in America, explaining to a blithely unaware world how climate change was dooming the planet.Read Full Story

Exclusive: An interactive map, based on data from 50 state health departments, details how the mosquito-borne disease made its way to America in travelers’ bloodstreams -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The former Secret Service agent convicted of stealing bitcoins from Silk Road seems to have been planning to skip his prison sentence and leave the country. The post Corrupt Silk Road Investigator Re-Arrested for Allegedly Trying to Flee the US appeared first on WIRED.

Break up the top 1% layer of chocolate, and mix it into the 99% of mint ice cream below.Bernie's Yearning is a new ice-cream flavor from Ben & Jerry's Ben Cohen, created in support of Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator who is running for president this year. And although Ben's new flavor has nothing to do with either Ben & Jerry's ice cream, nor Sanders's campaign, one look at the packaging tells you where it comes from.Read Full Story

Strategically placing solar and wind farms across the U.S. could compensate for power lulls during cloudy or calm days -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Flight AND fight. The post So, Dutch Cops Are Teaching Majestic Eagles to Hunt Drones appeared first on WIRED.

The disease is not normally infectious, but people who received grafts from cadavers did show telltale markers in their brains -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com