Space travel sunblock could be made from skin pigments
Sep 03, 2020
2 minutes
Words by Adam Mann
© NASA/JPL-Caltech
Explorers on the Moon or Mars may one day shield themselves using creams containing a new bioengineered material called selenomelanin, created by enriching the natural pigment melanin with the metal selenium. Outside Earth’s protective magnetic field, humans are exposed
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