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A man from California who ran a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme where he claimed to turn cow manure into green energy has been sentenced to over six years in prison, the US attorney's office for the Eastern District of California announced this week.

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has started Spain’s six-month presidency of the European Union with a lightning visit to Kyiv to underline the bloc’s support of Ukraine in the face of the invasion by Russia

An armada of tankers ferrying sanctioned oil around the globe is starting to get younger, bucking a months-long

An explosion at a chemical plant in Southeast China on Saturday sent huge billows of thick black smoke into the air.

Ariana Madix sparks pregnancy rumors after ultrasound photos are seen in her birthday video, while Raquel Leviss tries to return to the show

Scientists have found an explanation for a 'gravity hole' in the Indian Ocean. A gravity hole is an area where gravitational pull is low, causing the seafloor to sink. Deep beneath the ocean, there is one that is three million square kilometers in size and previously it has confused scientists. Now two researchers from the Indian Institute of Science, Debanjan Pal and Attreyee Ghosh, think they have solved the mystery. More than 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) beneath Earth's crust, they found cold, dense remnants of an ancient ocean plunged into a 'slab graveyard' beneath Africa some 30 million years ago, stirring up hot molten rock. Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter Pal and Ghosh retraced the formation of the massive geoid by modeling how tectonic plates skimmed over Earth's mantle for the past 140 million years. They ran simulations and compared the shape of the oceanic low those models predicted with observations of the dent itself. The models that reproduced the Indian Ocean geoid low in its current form all had one thing in common: plumes of hot, low-density magma wafting up beneath the low. These plumes, as well as a distinctive mantle structure, are what created the geoid low; if they rise high enough, Pal and Ghosh reckon. "In short, our results suggest that to match the [shape and amplitude of the] observed geoid low, plumes need to be buoyant enough to come up to mid-mantle depths," the pair wrote. The first of these plumes appeared about 20 million years ago, to the south of the Indian Ocean geoid low, and around 10 million years after the old Tethys Sea sank into the lower mantle. As the plumes spread beneath the lithosphere and inched towards the Indian peninsula, the low intensified. But more research needs to be done to work out what is really going on as not all scientists are convinced. Science is crazy. Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.

Amy Duggar and other family members have spoken out about their upbringing in the Prime Video documentary

CIA Director William Burns called his Russian counterpart to say the US had no involvement in the failed

BEIJING China has urged the Netherlands to not hinder bilateral cooperation in the semiconductor industry and to not

Suzanne Wheeler doesn't want to symbolize a movement. She just wants to live as a trans woman in Kansas as she has for the past eight years: unapologetically herself -- and with the official documents to prove it.

Kourtney Kardashian reportedly got her driver's license the same day as Kim, who went to the DMV with her entourage to make sure her photo was great

By Steve Gorman A SpaceX rocket in Florida stood poised for launch on Saturday carrying an orbital telescope