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Brazilian midfielder Kaka heads the Jabulani ball (Shine 2010/Flickr)

While the whole world was anticipating the 2010 World Cup tournament in South Africa, a team of scientists and engineers were busy crafting one of its most crucial pieces of equipment: the soccer ball. This year’s ball, made by Adidas, is named Jabulani, which means “celebrate” in the Zulu language.

Jabulani boasts many technical improvements, such as a specially engineered surface texture for better grip, shock-absorbing polymer material, and a more aerodynamic shape.

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Golf is one of the most popular sports in the world – in the United States alone there are over 15,000 golf courses. Yet, each year, 300 million golf balls go missing, with many ending up in bodies of water. One golf ball can take up to 1,000 years to decompose, and as it does, it slowly excretes a large amount of heavy metal zinc, a pollutant.

So, in an effort to make sports and leisure more environmentally friendly, the Spanish company Albus Golf has created the Ecobioball: a golf ball packed with fish food that dissolves within 48 hours of being in water.

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