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Don’t miss: knotty sculptures, deadly diseases and molecular machines

This week, catch Anthony Gormley's big show, learn to spot the planet's biggest diseases and discover the tiny technologies set to transform our world

Visit

: Battle for survival at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh explores the country’s role in the fight to eliminate five deadly diseases that together affect 1 in 18 people. From 6 December.

Read

draws on author Sonia Contera’s adventures in molecular-scale engineering to herald the coming of age of nanotechnology, and its promise to re-engineer tissue and transform lives.

Last chance

. A major show of his art has been running at London’s Royal Academy of Arts. Catch it before it ends on 3 December.

Topics: Books and art / Exhibition