Material World 13 September 2012: Social Media, Engineering, Voyager, Botany

Published: Sept. 13, 2012, 5 p.m.

Material World this week is full of record breakers: an experiment involving 61 million people, an update on what is happening with the furthest-flung man-made object from Earth; the Voyager space craft, the largest botanical project ever completed - the Flora of Tropical East Africa and the biggest award for engineering - The Queen Elizabeth Prize.