October 16–25 Imagine Science Film Festival to be held in New York City. Visit www.imaginesciencefilms.com October 28–30 ChemEng08 to be held in Birmingham, England. Visit www.chemeng08.com November 1 The Dibner Hall of the History of Science opens at The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, Calif. Visit www.huntington.org

October 3 Grid Fest at CERN in Geneva marks LHC's computing grid going live. Visit lcg.web.cern.ch/LCG/lhcgridfest October 12–18 Earth Science Week 2008, sponsored by the American 
Geological Institute, celebrates “No Child Left Inside.” Visit www.earthsciweek.org October 20–21 Orionids meteor shower expected to peak. Visit 
www.imo.net/calendar/2008

September 7–9 The first INCF Congress of Neuroinformatics. To be held in Stockholm. Visit www.neuroinformatics2008.org Sept. 21–Nov. 2 The walk-through Spider Pavilion opens at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Visit the museum’s website at www.nhm.org Sept. 27–Oct. 12 Wired magazine’s NextFest in Chicago’s Millennium Park showcases global innovations. Visit www.wirednextfest.com

September 14 Secrets of the Dinosaur Mummy premieres on the Discovery Channel. Visit http://www.dsc.discovery.com October 5–9 International Banana Conference in Mombasa, Kenya. Visit http://www.banana2008.com October 18 Climate Change: the threat to Life and Our Energy Future opens at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Visit http://www.amnh.org

September 10–13 First International Ragweed Conference in Budapest. Visit www.nki.hu/ragweed September 15 An Evening with Frank Wilczek: The Lightness of Being. Reception and book signing by the physics Nobel laureate at the New York Academy of Sciences. Visit www.nyas.org/events October 4 Great Insect Fair at Pennsylvania State University. Visit www.ento.psu.edu/scied/fair.html

August 16–24 Australia celebrates National Science Week. Visit www.scienceweek.info.au September 18 and 19 University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Holtz Center presents "Climate Change is Global." Visit www.sts.wisc.edu October 8 Space Shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to launch as part of the final mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. Visit www.nasa.gov/missions

July 19 Randy Olson’s new mock-umentary Sizzle: A Global Warming Comedy premieres in Hollywood. Visit www.sizzlethemovie.com August 6–14 The 33rd International Geological Congress will be held in Oslo. Visit www.33igc.org October 31 The Aztec World opens at The Field Museum in Chicago. Visit www.fieldmuseum.org/exhibits/temporary_exhib2.html

July 9–10 New Energy Symposium in New York. Visit www.neny.org/nes/2008/home July 22–25 Smithsonian’s Franzini Family Science Circus explores gravity, inertia and balance with hula hoops and balls. Visit discoverytheater.org August 16–20 Human Proteome Organisation’s Seventh Annual World Congress to be held in Amsterdam. Visit hupo2008.nl

June 30–July 3 The Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition. Visit www.summerscience.org.uk/ July 6–10 Growers and researchers gather in Romania, for the European Association for Potato Research’s four-day congress. Visit www.eapr2008-brasov.com August 1 Total solar eclipse visible in parts of Canada, Greenland, Russia and China. Visit eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse.html SN Online www.sciencenews.org

June 15 Baseball as America opens at the Boston Museum of Science. Visit www.mos.org/exhibits_shows. June 29–July 3 The Ninth International Conference on Permafrost at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Visit www.nicop.org July 27/28 Southern δ-Aquariids meteor shower peak. Visit www.imo.net/calendar/2008