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nature

welcome back Nature.

Welcome back to the Nature podcast.

This week we'll be hearing about a giant infrastructure project from China

and finding out how researchers are translating brain patterns into speech.

I'm Charmne Bundell and I'm Benjamin Thompson. Over the next couple of weeks, Nature is publishing a series of feature articles that focus

on China's massive belt and road initiative.

This project will connect the country to others around the world by building infrastructure, including high-speed rail networks, airports and even whole cities.

To date, 126 countries from Africa, Asia, Europe and South America

have signed up to the project,

which is designed to transform the global movement of goods and services.

The features in nature are looking at the effect that the Belt and Road Initiative

is having on scientific research in different parts of the world.

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