On Petridish.org, researchers post materials about themselves and their research, and the public can discover projects that are exciting to them. In exchange for contributing to the project, backers receive insider updates on the research, naming rights to new discoveries, and other exciting souvenirs from the work.

Here’s a list of projects: blog.petridish.org.





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Image: Exomoon project (credit: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)