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Did you know the lines on a basketball aren’t always molded in one go? 🏀

Some are carefully hand-painted after production, with workers using precision tools to trace pre-set guides and ensure perfect symmetry and grip.

It’s a small detail — but one that makes a big difference in every game.

VIDEO CREDIT: Minsheng

These Chinese students are taking gaming beyond the screen, and to their local shopping mall.

Students in cities like Qingdao are using smartphones and connected devices to play Fortnite-style games in augmented reality.

Organizers are hosting late night AR-gaming sessions in quiet shopping malls with turnouts of up to 60 players.

Keukenhof in the Netherlands has opened its gates for spring, and the tulips are putting on a show.

It takes a team of horticulturalists 10 months to prepare the display, but as head gardener Owen Carroll says, ‘When people come inside the gate and get the wow factor… you know you did a good job.’

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A 230-million-year-old reptile with a parrot-like beak has been discovered in Brazil 🇧🇷

Named Isodapedon varzealis, this ancient rhynchosaur helps scientists do more than identify a new species—it helps them date entire rock layers from the Triassic period.
Even more fascinating? It shares strong similarities with a species found in Scotland, showing these reptiles once roamed across vast parts of the ancient world.

The designer of a cliffside café in China’s Zhejiang Province has won the 29th International Interior Designer of the Year.

Standing hundreds of meters above the ground, the café draws thrill-seeking visitors with breathtaking views. Dare to try?

A humanoid robot that can play tennis? It’s here.

Developed by Galbot and Tsinghua University, this fully autonomous tennis robot learns from imperfect human motion data — using a system called LATENT.

Instead of perfect match footage, it trains on fragmented movements — and still reacts to high-speed shots, unpredictable trajectories, and changing rhythms of play.

Start-up ClearSpace says its 'tow truck for space' will capture and de-orbit space junk. It uses capture systems, robotic arms, contact-dynamics simulations and autonomous control technologies. Space agencies want to de-clutter low-Earth orbit which is getting crowded.

There's more than a million items larger than 1cm with the potential to cause catastrophic damage to satellites.

Winter has turned the Karatohai Wetland in northwest China’s Xinjiang into a living artwork.

A deep freeze has iced over the river, while flowing water beneath carved delicate, branch-like patterns across the surface.

Dusted with snow, the formations resemble trees growing from the ice — some like young saplings, others twisting like ancient trunks — evoking the beauty of a traditional Chinese ink painting.