When you buy a car, you probably want it to look good, but certain colors might make it more or less likely that your car will get stolen. Chiefly, attention-grabbing colors can deter thieves. You don’t have to paint your car to look like a cat or something ridiculous, but opting for a yellow, green, and especially pink car can …

Pope Francis spoke out against the destruction of the rainforest this past weekend, calling deforestation a “sin” and asking his fellow Catholics to respect God’s Creation. Speaking at the University of Molise on Saturday, July 5, before an audience that included struggling farmers, Francis decried the destruction of South America’s rainforests such as the Amazon, which contains an estimated 390 …

The University of Arizona fired a psychiatry professor this week whose research on medical marijuana and veterans was finally green-lighted by federal authorities in March after a years-long chokehold. Dr. Sue Sisley, a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry who has been working for five years to get approvals for her study on medical marijuana for post-traumatic stress disorder, says she …

A group of congressional Republicans last week filed a brief with the National Labor Relations Board opposing the unionization efforts of athletes at Northwestern University, arguing that granting college athletes such rights is incompatible with the collegiate sports model and unlawful under the National Labor Relations Act. The brief — led by Rep. John Kline (R-MI), head of the House …

Putting down your razor can lift your G.P.A. at Arizona State University. Professor Breanne Fahs offers female students extra-credit if they “stop shaving their legs and underarms for ten weeks during the semester while keeping a journal to document their experiences.” For Fahs, who teaches women and gender studies, the purpose is to get students thinking critically about societal norms …

“Today there’s no legislation regarding how much intelligence a machine can have, how interconnected it can be. If that continues, look at the exponential trend. We will reach the singularity in the timeframe most experts predict. From that point on you’re going to see that the top species will no longer be humans, but machines.” These are the words of …

Geologists say that they have confirmed what many have suspected for years: a swarm of earthquakes that rattled central Oklahoma was the direct result of fracking and wastewater injection. The study by a team of geologists from Cornell University, the University of Colorado, Columbia University and the United States Geological Survey released last week makes a direct link between high-pressure …