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Science programme reporting on developments across the disciplines

Science programme reporting on developments across the disciplines. Each week, scientists describe their work, conveying the excitement they feel for their research projects

Material World: 13/09/2012

13/09/2012

BBC Radio 4 - Material World, 13/09/2012

Quentin Cooper explores how online social pressure can increase voter turnout.

Facebook influence is proved, an engineering award to rival the Nobel, Voyager 1 on its distant journey and East African botany described after 60 years' work. With Quentin Cooper.

Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and behind the headlines. 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.

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