Introduction to Petridish Petridish is a crowdfunding platform for science that plans to transform the way research is funded. On Petridish, science-lovers can connect directly with researchers to help them launch new…

How Petridish Works Researchers can post materials about themselves and their research on the site, and the public can discover projects that are exciting to them. In exchange for contributing to the project, backers …

SpaceX Recovers Dragon Capsule SpaceX recovered the Dragon capsule loaded with science and research from the International Space Station. The capsule was carrying 4,500 pounds of supplies and scientific experiment equ…

History of Crowdfunding in Science The concept of crowdfunding for scientific research is not new, but platforms like Petridish are making it more accessible and mainstream. Previously, scientists often relied on gove…