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With 2.5 million individual solar panels across more than 10.36 square kilometers, India's new plant is capable of powering 150,000 homes. The facility puts India on track to be the world's third-biggest solar market by next year, joining several other countries on the path to creating a fossil-fuel free future.

The world's largest quantum physics experiment, run by 12 different labs around the world, will test Albert Einstein's idea of local realism - one of the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics. The experiment aims to use a huge amount of random, user-generated data to test Bell's inequality.

Obesity affects more than 600 million adults and around 41 million children under the age of 5 according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Researchers may have found a way to halt the development of both type 2 diabetes and obesity in humans using a recently discovered protein.