Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) will be embarking on two new materials projects in fusion energy sciences. The support for these projects comes from the Department of Energy’s Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) and Advanced Research Projects Agency– …
The Pacific Northwest Association of Toxicologists (PANWAT) presented its annual Toxicology Achievement Award to Katrina Waters at the Society of Toxicology Pacific Northwest Chapter Meeting, held in Lynnwood, Washington, on September 30th. The award …
The Science Stable, but relatively inactive catalysts, can be transiently activated in the presence of surface intermediates. Researchers employed a surface science approach to prepare single rhodium (Rh) atom sites with different coordinations. They found …
Exploding pagers, a bridge in Baltimore collapsed by a cargo ship, and hacks on a water system in rural Texas. All spotlight vulnerabilities in our complex, global supply chain. Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), like Jess Smith, …
RICHLAND, Wash.—Across the United States, millions of people rely on electricity delivered by thousands of miles of transmission lines. As the nation continues to electrify all aspects of society—vehicles, buildings, appliances—utilities need strategies …
The Science This research explores how the sinuosity, or bends, in rivers can influence the mixing of river water and groundwater in shallow riverbed sediments and in turn affect water quality. Researchers discovered that high-sinuosity channels can shield …
The Science Quality control (QC) strategies for monitoring and assessing instrument performance during mass spectrometry analysis is crucial to make sure the data generated is high-quality, reproducible, and accurate. Particularly for metabolomics and …
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)-Sequim facilitated the deployment and testing of the first tidal turbine operated for an extended period on the seafloor in the Pacific Northwest. It highlights PNNL-Sequim’s key role as the only facility on …
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) postdoc Pengfei Shi won first place in the Early Career Researcher Poster Competition at the recently concluded NOAA Subseasonal and Seasonal Applications Workshop. The objective of the workshop, presented by …
The key to staying safe is to identify risks, mitigate them and prepare—just in case. This is true for all sorts of hazards, including the threat of biological pathogens, whether naturally occurring or deliberately engineered. Researchers at the …
The Science Researchers see an opportunity to replace synthetically-produced ammonia with a natural process using diazotrophic microorganisms. In this study, researchers developed a screening pipeline to identify a new …
The Science Zeolite catalysts are used in numerous industrial processes. Thus, finding ways to make the reactions catalyzed within their pores more efficient has broad utility. Researchers described how the high ionic strength in zeolite micropores leads …
Data-gathering instruments will be positioned on commercial, ocean-going ships in a Department of Energy-funded project that is expected to improve understanding of marine atmosphere and aerosol–cloud interactions. Using commercial ships as observational …
Tirthankar (TC) Chakraborty, an Earth scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), was recently selected as a 2024–2025 Levenick Resident Scholar in Sustainability Leadership at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Chakraborty …
The Science Proton transfer is central to numerous important systems, from biology to energy storage. Probing the details of proton transfer reactions can provide insight into how to control these processes. Combining experimental and theoretical …
Jingshan Du and Shuai Zhang, materials scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), were part of a team that co-edited a special issue of MRS Advances. The issue was inspired by a symposium co-organized by four of the co-editors at the …
Finding a needle in a haystack is the quintessentially impossible task. But what if new tools could make it straightforwardly achievable? Imagine if, instead of searching through everything by hand, you could portion out small piles of hay and use magnets …
RICHLAND, Wash. —An electric vehicle manufacturer, two schools and two Alaskan villages: these are just some of the organizations using wind turbines to help meet their energy needs. For the last eight months, researchers from the Department of Energy’s …
The Science Skillful predictions of tropical cyclone (TC) activity on subseasonal time scales (7–60 days) may help mitigate their destructive impacts. As the dominant component of intraseasonal (30–90 days) variability in the tropical atmosphere, the …
An office worker sitting in a cubicle under an LED light mounted in the ceiling shouts to no one in particular, “That flicker is giving me a headache!” The office worker one cube over says, “You don’t know what you’re talking about! The light is fine!” …
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