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Super-space sunscreen made from skin pigment could protect astronauts from radiation – NewsDio
(Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech) For astronauts preparing to spend a long summer vacation on Mars, hats and umbrellas may not be enough to protect them from the strong rays of the sun. And like sunscreen-dipped bathers, explorers on the moon or on Mars may one da…
For astronauts preparing to spend a long summer vacation on Mars, hats and umbrellas may not be enough to protect them from the strong rays of the sun.
And like sunscreen-dipped bathers, explorers on the moon or on Mars may one day protect themselves with creams containing a new bioengineered material called selenomelanin, created by enriching the natural melanin pigment with selenium metal.
According to NASA, outside of Earth’s protective magnetic field, humans are exposed to many types of da…
