It might be winter, but two scientists in Peoria, Ill., have sunscreen on their minds. U.S. Department of Agriculture chemists have made a new, biodegradable sunscreen by using soybean oil and a natural chemical in oat bran.
Joe Laszlo and Dave Compton started working with the compound, called ferulic acid, because it’s structurally similar to the synthetic chemicals in commercial sunscreens.
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