A worker installs one of David Rogers' 13 giant bug sculptures at the Garden in the Woods.
(Mao Lin/New England Wild Flower Society)
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A worker installs one of David Rogers' 13 giant bug sculptures at the Garden in the Woods.
(Mao Lin/New England Wild Flower Society)
WEDNESDAY, JULY 9
TV science This week's episode of NOVA ScienceNow will feature a trip to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where astronauts are preparing for a repair mission to the Hubble Space Telescope; a search for the first primate; and a drug-resistant strain of bacteria striking soldiers in Iraq. At 9 p.m. on WGBH, Channel 2. Go to pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow.
Robots versus disease Anne Carpenter, a biological imaging specialist at the Broad Institute, will talk about the role of high-tech imaging in helping understand diseases from cancer to tuberculosis. At 6 p.m., at the Broad Institute, 7 Cambridge Center. Go to broad.mit.edu/outreach/midsummer.
FRIDAY, JULY 11
Microbial life Thomas M. Schmidt, of Michigan State University, will lead a lecture on microbes and the tradeoffs between metabolic power and efficiency. At 8 p.m., in the Marine Biological Laboratory's Lillie Auditorium, 7 MBL St., Woods Hole. Go to mbl.edu/FEL.
SATURDAY, JULY 12
Big bugs Get a bug's eye view of the world courtesy of New York artist David Rogers' 13 giant sculptures, including an 18-foot, 1,200-pound praying mantis. At the New England Wild Flower Society's Garden in the Woods, 180 Hemenway Rd., Framingham. Go to www.newfs.org.
Younger women with breast cancer Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center sponsors a daylong forum for younger women with breast cancer and those close to them. From 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston. $10 registration fee. Call 800-553-3787 or go to cancercare.harvard.edu.
COMING UP
Five key technologies On July 23 at the Marine Biological Laboratory,
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