Popcorn in cinemas, whitening creams or filtered water in restaurants ... is considered to be far more expensive than their real value.
Although water is a resource that accounts for three-quarters of the globe's area, only about 2.5% of it is usable water.
Sanitary pads, high-heeled shoes ... ideas are sisters', but the truth is exactly the opposite.
For scientists, they always find unexpected applications of very ordinary items around us.
In Malawi, a package of sanitary napkins costs the same as the payday and girls often have to miss school because there is not enough cotton to use during the menstrual period.
Detecting water pollution becomes easier by using sanitary pads. This is a new study by two environmental engineers David Nicholas Lerner and Dave Mark Chandler at Sheffield