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This is the show where we bring you the latest breakthroughs in science and technology,

with me Chris Smith and with Phil Sansom.

This week we're tackling a deadly serious subject, the science of custard.

We're covering the chemistry of eggs, custard powder explosions, plus that most important question of them all, is custard better, hot or cold?

And in the news, a possible answer to why we get the hiccups, and how reliable or unreliable is your family tree.

The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. Now first up, solar power is a very important part of renewable energy production,

but the current generation of photovoltaic cells, those are the big black slabs that you see on the roofs of houses,

are extremely heavy chunks of silicon. And not only do they take a lot of energy to make and to install,

they're going to be jolly difficult to recycle in a few years

time when they need replacing.

Which means that the discovery by Cambridge University scientists of a new solar panel material

called a Perovsky is welcome news. It works as well as silicon,

but it's thin enough to spray onto a surface making it very light and cheap to deploy.

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