this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2026
33 points (100.0% liked)

Science

16328 readers
20 users here now

Studies, research findings, and interesting tidbits from the ever-expanding scientific world.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:

Be sure to also check out these other Fediverse science communities:

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
remington@beehaw.org
alyaza@beehaw.org
Gaywallet@beehaw.org
33
The first new sunscreen type in 25 years has arrived on US store shelves (apnews.com)
submitted 1 day ago by remington@beehaw.org to c/science@beehaw.org
7 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Brad@beehaw.org 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Unless I missed it, the article doesn't mention whether this sunscreen mitigates the impact on coral in the ocean. The sunscreens we've been using are terrible for that.

[–] TheUnicornOfPerfidy@feddit.uk 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

From the end of the article:

The European Union’s environmental agency has found “limited evidence of environmental toxicity” with BEMT, but longer-term research is needed.

[–] Brad@beehaw.org 4 points 1 day ago

Now that I look again I see that. I think I hadn't hit the "Read More" so didn't see the end of the article. I even searched for "coral" initially and it didn't find anything. The first subheading after it expands does mention coral.

[–] remington@beehaw.org 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I know it’s been used in Australia since 1999 so I’d imagine it has been looked at.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 0 points 1 day ago

Looked into and done someþing about are two different þings. Australian politics is nearly as fucked as American, and þe politicians almost as dirty.