Show HN: Laboratory.love – Crowdfund plastic chemical testing for food and drinkhttps://laboratory.loveLast year PlasticList discovered that 86% of food products they tested contain plastic chemicals—including 100% of baby food tested. The EU just lowered their "safe" BPA limit by 20,000x. Meanwhile, the FDA allows levels 100x higher than what Europe considers safe.This seemed like a solvable problem.Laboratory.love lets you crowdfund independent testing of specific products you actually buy. Think Consumer Reports meets Kickstarter, but focused on detecting endocrine disruptors in your yogurt, your kid's snacks, whatever you're curious about.Here's how it works: Find a product (or suggest one), contribute to its testing fund, get detailed lab results when testing completes. If a product doesn't reach its funding goal within 365 days, automatic refund. All results are published openly. We're using the same methodology as PlasticList.org, which found plastic chemicals in everything from prenatal vitamins to ice cream. But instead of researchers choosing what to tes
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4577-4579: Watch the SkiesWritten by Deborah Padgett, OPGS Task Lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Friday, June 20, 2025 During the plan covering Sols 4575-4576, Curiosity continued our investigation of mysterious boxwork structures on the shoulders of Mount Sharp. After a successful 56-meter drive (about 184 feet), Curiosity is now parked in a trough cutting […]
Digital Information Platform LibraryLibrary Scientific papers, industry forum presentations, and videos covering the concepts used in the digital information platform are available to the public. For those interested in a deeper understanding of the technical workings of DIP, please refer to these resources. Newsletters April 2025December 2024August 2024June 2024March 2024November 2023 NASA Feature Stories NASA Partners With Airlines […]
DIP EventsNovember 20, 2024 at 10:00 AM ESTDigital Information Platform Virtual Workshop: A Virtual Workshop on Service Quality, Data Governance, Cybersecurity, and Interoperability June 28, 2023 at 10:00 AM EDTDIP Information Session: Announcement of Collaborative Opportunity (ACO) for Service Providers July 27, 2022 at 10:00 AM EDTDIP Announcement of Collaborative Opportunity (ACO) for Flight Operators February […]
DIP Spotlights Issue #2SFNP-OPS DEMO 1 DIP Hosts Workshop with Collins Aerospace at NASA/FAA North Texas Research Station (NTX), Fort Worth November 29-30, 2023 The DIP team hosted Collins Aerospace at NASA’s NTX facility to discuss potential collaboration opportunities on the SFNP-Ops demo series. Collins Aerospace were briefed on the current SFNP-Ops 1 Collaborative Digital Departure Rerouting (CDDR) […]
NASA Awards Third Crowdsourcing Contract IterationNASA continues to collaborate with global communities to solve complex challenges through crowdsourcing with a series of 25 new NASA Open Innovation Service (NOIS) contracts managed by the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The contract aims to empower NASA’s workforce by actively engaging the public to find creative solutions to difficult space exploration challenges […]
Autonomous Tritium Micropowered SensorsPeter CabauyCity Labs, Inc. The NIAC Phase I study confirmed the feasibility of nuclear-micropowered probes (NMPs) using tritium betavoltaic power technology for autonomous exploration of the Moon’s permanently shadowed regions (PSRs). This work advanced the technology’s readiness level (TRL) from TRL 1 to TRL 2, validating theoretical models and feasibility assessments. Phase II will refine […]
Sols 4541–4542: Boxwork Structure, or Just “Box-Like” Structure?Written by Ashley Stroupe, Mission Operations Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Wednesday, May 14, 2025 Today we came into another strange and interesting workspace (see image above) that is as exciting as the one we had on Monday. This is our first arrival at a potential boxwork structure — a series […]
NASA Awards Launch Service Task Order for Aspera’s Galaxy MissionNASA has selected Rocket Lab USA Inc. of Long Beach, California, to launch the agency’s Aspera mission, a SmallSat to study galaxy formation and evolution, providing new insights into how the universe works. The selection is part of NASA’s Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) launch services contract. This contract allows the agency to […]
NASA Invests in Future STEM Workforce Through Space Grant AwardsNASA is awarding up to $870,000 annually to 52 institutions across the United States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico over the next four years. The investments aim to create opportunities for the next generation of innovators by supporting workforce development, science, technology, engineering and math education, and aerospace collaboration nationwide. The Space Grant […]
Amateur Radio Scientists Shine at the 2025 HamSCI WorkshopLove Ham Radio? The HamSCI project fosters collaboration between amateur radio operators and professional researchers. Its goals are to advance scientific research and understanding through amateur radio activities, encourage the development of modern technologies to support this research, and provide educational opportunities for the amateur community and the public. HamSCI held its annual Workshop, ‘HamSCI’s […]
NASA Harvests Lettuce for Space Station StudyInside a laboratory in the Space Systems Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a payload implementation team member harvests ‘Outredgeous’ romaine lettuce growing in the Advanced Plant Habitat ground unit on Thursday, April 24, 2025. The harvest is part of the ground control work supporting Plant Habitat-07, which launched to the International […]
Show HN: Organize – open-source E2EE app to help you form your own labor unionHey HN,I've been working on Organize for a few years now, and I figured May Day/International Workers' Day would be a good time to show it off. I'm here in the comments if you have any questions!Problem:According to recent polls, 70% of American workers support unions [1], and 50% say they'd join one if they could [2], but only 10% are actually in one [3]. That translates to 60 million US workers who want to join a union but haven't yet [4].Solution:Organize is a self-service guide for workplaces that are too small to attract a full-time organizer. 85% of US firms have less than 20 employees [5], which is often just too small to justify the full attention of a professional organizer.Inspired by the winning strategies of veteran organizer Jane McAlevey [6], Organize helps you recruit the support of a supermajority of your coworkers, so that you can crush your certification election and win big when you negotiate your first contract.Tech:Organize is an MIT-licensed React Native client an
Sols 4522-4524: Up on the RoofWritten by Deborah Padgett, OPGS Task Lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Friday, April 25, 2025 On Sols 4520 and 4521, Curiosity was supposed to study layered rocks in its workspace, then drive on. Unfortunately, a communications pass didn’t go as expected, preventing this plan from being transmitted. Our rover is fine, […]
Sols 4509-4510: A weekend of long drivesWritten by Abigail Fraeman, Planetary Geologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Friday, April 11, 2025 Curiosity is continuing to book it to the potential boxwork structures. The rover drove over 50 meters on Wednesday, and we plan to drive more than 50 meters again in today’s plan thanks to an unusually good […]
NASA-Developed Tools at Marshall Support Operations to StationTwo new automation tools developed at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, are geared toward improving operations for flight controllers working with the International Space Station from the Huntsville Operations Support Center. The tools, called AutoDump and Permanently Missing Intervals Checker, will free the flight control team to focus on situational awareness, anomaly […]
Show HN: My Self-Hosted Open Source WeTransfer Alternative ErugoErugo is a totally free, powerful, self-hosted file-sharing platform that puts you in control of your files and data.I've been working on this project since January this year and i've just released 0.1.1Features: - Really easy file upload interface with drag and drop support, single file select and folder select.- Maintains folder structure when you upload nested folders. (As far as I can figure out its the only open source tool that does this)- Optionally password protect shares.- Allow users to create "reverse share" requests.- Set expiry times when creating shares.- Add recipients to shares and Erugo will send them an email with a link to the share after upload.- Direct or chunked upload modes available to adapt to network conditions.- External auth provide support (Google, Microsoft, Authentik, OIDC)Customisation: - Change UI colours with either the built in themes or create your own.- Add your own logo and background.- Add multiple backgrounds and let them display as a slideshow -
Navigating a Slanted RiverWritten by Denise Buckner, student collaborator at University of Florida Perseverance is hard at work on Mars, overcoming obstacles for scientific exploration! Just a few sols after successfully sealing the challenging Green Gardens core, Perseverance roved on to the Broom Point workspace to collect another sample called Main River. Broom Point is situated a few […]
NASA Releases its Spinoff 2025 PublicationThe work NASA conducts in space leads to ongoing innovations benefiting people on Earth. Some of these latest technologies, which have been successfully transferred from NASA to the commercial sector, are featured in the latest edition of NASA’s Spinoff 2025 publication now available online. The publication features more than 40 commercial infusions of NASA technologies, […]
2025 Aviation Weather Mission: Civil Air Patrol Cadets Help Scientists Study the Atmosphere with GLOBE CloudsThe Science Activation Program’s NASA Earth Science Education Collaborative (NESEC) is working alongside the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) to launch the 2025 Aviation Weather Mission. The mission will engage cadets (students ages 11-20) and senior members to collect aviation-relevant observations including airport conditions, Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Cloud observations, commercial […]

















