New Bedford Science Café is scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 3, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Last Round Bar and Grille. Engineer Richard Riels will discuss ropeless lobster traps and new tools designed to protect marine mammals while supporting fishing communities. Focus remains on reducing whale entanglements caused by traditional rope systems. Riels serves as […]
New Bedford Science Café continues in full swing on Tuesday, Jan. 6, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Last Round Bar and Grill. Admission is free. Food and drinks are available for purchase. Featured speakers include filmmaker Kevin Kertscher and Johns Hopkins freshman Audrey Kertscher. Their talk centers on “Cornering Malaria: A Revolutionary Approach” and […]
New Bedford Science Café will meet on Tuesday, Dec. 2, from 6 to 8 p.m. at The Last Round Bar & Grille. Seth Lederman, MD, CEO of Tonix Pharmaceuticals, will speak on the story behind a new FDA-approved fibromyalgia drug. Tonix operates a biologics manufacturing facility in the New Bedford Business Park. Tonix received approval […]
Guests will discuss “Ensuring Healthy Oysters: Best Growing Practices and the Reality of Regulatory Restraints.” Dale Leavitt and Christian Petitpas work in different fields but share one goal: protecting oysters. Leavitt, an educator and aquaculturist, co-owns West Island Oysters in Nasketucket Bay off Fairhaven. His floating-cage farm can yield up to one million oysters in […]
Robert Hellström, Ph.D., professor of geography at Bridgewater State University, will speak on “Micro-Climates: How Climate Change is Influencing Local Weather.” He will explain how landscapes create localized climates, shaping wind patterns, flooding, and other conditions in coastal communities. Hellström has studied micro-climates from Harvard Forest to the Peruvian Andes and is currently working with […]
New Bedford Science Café returns Tuesday, Sept. 9, from 6 to 8 p.m. This month's speaker is David Kagan, Ph.D., associate teaching professor of physics at UMass Dartmouth. His talk is titled “Quantum Computing: A Revolution That’s Sure to Teach Schrödinger’s Cat New Tricks.” Kagan will explain the principles behind quantum computing, the challenges of […]
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