Wells Fargo admits that its employees opened more than 2,000,000 fake accounts in order to run up fraudulent charges against its customers ; it also says that the customers it stole from can’t sue the company because fake account paperwork bearing their forged signatures includes a promise to enter into binding arbitration rather than suing. Binding arbitration is a system created to allow giant companies to settle their differences without costly litigation, but a Supreme Court decision has allowed it to be applied to the dealings between individuals and giant companies — leading to a plague of companies that make you surrender your constitutional legal rights as a condition of shopping with them .

This microscope image made available by Matthew Dodd in February 2017 shows tiny tubes in rock found in Quebec, Canada. The structures appear to be the oldest known fossils, giving new support to some ideas about how life began, a new study says.

French performance artist Abraham Poincheval poses during a photo session in Paris on February 20, 2017. Poincheval will perform “Pierre” , during which he will live inside a rock, from February 22 to March 1, 2017 and “Oeuf” , during which he will sit on eggs until they hatch, from March 29, 2017 at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.