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Hello, welcome to this week's Naked Scientists podcast, the program that brings you the biggest breakthroughs and talks to the major movers and shakers from the worlds of science, technology and medicine.

I'm Chris Smith.

This week, we've teamed up with Cambridge University Press and specifically the team behind research directions. Their suite of new open-access journals that are all about publishing research in a novel and exciting way.

Science is, of course, all about asking questions and developing experiments to test hypotheses.

But only rarely does the topic have a single facet. Instead, one key question invariably leads

to many others, and the answers to those can, as the research directions team put it, assemble

into chains of collaborative work. They're asking really important questions, some of which

we're going to turn into podcasts that will be called Research Directions. That's on the way,

and this is our first go. In each episode, we'll hear from the journal editor who's proposed a key

question relevant to current research priorities. Then we'll hear from a series of authors who've

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