Dr Barbara Olioso's Blog

Safer sunscreens, hopefully on the way

Just read about a new way to compensate free radicals generation in nano Titanium dioxide. A team of Italian chemists have found that coating the Titanium nano particles with Carbon decrease the amount of free radicals produced when it is exposed to UV. High tech can produce this kind of paradoxes, better performance and then out of the blue a side effect nobody thought about... In this case pro-aging effects! Let's see if this research opens the way to safer sunscreens...

Sweet insight on the train

Just witnessed a very sweet moment on the train:
A short woman could not reach the top rail to leave her bag. No strong man around, but a very kind old man offered to help. Unfortunately the bag was too heavy for him and could not lift it to the rail, so the woman stepped in and lifted what she could and bang the bag was up there!
I thought this was a very sweet moment and showed me how creative cooperation is the way to go...