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• Published on September 19, 2024 - 21:30 GMT

  

  An Extratropical Pathway for the Madden–Julian Oscillation’s Influence on North Atlantic Tropical Cyclones

  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 …

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• Published on September 19, 2024 - 21:30 GMT

  

  Flicker Fight: Understanding and Overcoming Temporal Light Modulation

  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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• Published on September 18, 2024 - 23:01 GMT

  

  Capturing Finer-Scale Topographic Differences Improves Model Capability to Reproduce Observations

  The Science Earth system models (ESMs), used in climate simulations and projections, typically use grids of 50–200 km resolution. These are considered relatively coarse with limited ability to resolve land surface variability. To enhance the capability of …

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• Published on September 18, 2024 - 22:36 GMT

  

  A Unified Mathematical Theory for Barren Plateaus

  The term “barren plateaus” suggests an empty, deserted, and flat landscape. This term is used in quantum computing to describe a phenomenon where a class of tunable quantum models exhibit a vast and barren landscape of appropriate models for a given …

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• Published on September 18, 2024 - 20:43 GMT

  

  Residual Impurities Affect the Stability of Hydrogen Atoms in Irradiated Gibbsite

  The Science During Cold War-era plutonium production at what is now the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington State, aluminum was used extensively as fuel cladding material. The waste products generated by fuel processing are currently stored …

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• Published on September 18, 2024 - 18:26 GMT

  

  Kevin Rosso Named American Geophysical Union Fellow

  Kevin Rosso, a chemist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), has been elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). Rosso joins 53 scientists named in the 2024 class, who will be honored in December at AGU24 in Washington, DC. “I’ve …

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• Published on September 18, 2024 - 18:01 GMT

  

  Flexible Circuits Made with Silk and Graphene on the Horizon

  RICHLAND, Wash.—After thousands of years as a highly valuable commodity, silk continues to surprise. Now it may help usher in a whole new direction for microelectronics and computing. While silk protein has been deployed in designer electronics, its use is …

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• Published on September 18, 2024 - 00:08 GMT

  

  New Report Provides Update on Environmental Effects of Marine Renewable Energy

  In the drive toward clean and reliable energy goals, the ocean offers potential for power generation from waves, tides, ocean currents, and temperature and salinity gradients. Yet there are lingering questions and data gaps around the potential …

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• Published on September 16, 2024 - 22:44 GMT

  

  Stronger Sea Surface Cooling Produced by Hurricanes along the U.S. Southeast Coast

  The Science Hurricanes rapidly cool the sea surface by mixing cooler, deep waters with warmer surface waters. The upper-ocean temperature and distribution of nutrients are significantly altered in the aftermath of these large weather events—this is known …

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• Published on September 16, 2024 - 22:44 GMT

  

  Future Climate Change Predicted to Shift Flood Generating Mechanisms and Intensify Extreme Flooding Events

  The Science The Delaware River Basin, a coastal watershed in the Mid-Atlantic region, has a long history of severe flooding with significant socioeconomic impacts. This research uses a process-based modeling approach to analyze hydrometeorological (like …

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• Published on September 13, 2024 - 22:48 GMT

  

  From Simulation to Synthesis

  Researchers have used computational techniques to advance scientific discovery since the earliest days of computing. Now, scientific research is experiencing another leap forward with the intersection of high-performance computing, artificial intelligence …

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• Published on September 13, 2024 - 17:00 GMT

  

  Transmission and Renewables Would Reduce Carbon Emissions, Generation Costs in Western United States

  RICHLAND, Wash.—If all the high-voltage transmission currently under construction and in advanced stages of permitting is built by 2030 in the Western United States—enabling the construction of new renewable energy projects—carbon dioxide emissions in the …

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• Published on September 10, 2024 - 21:19 GMT

  

  An Alternate Approach to Fabricating Strengthened Steel

  The Science Potential fusion power plants require materials capable of withstanding extreme conditions. Oxide dispersion strengthened (ODS) steel represents a top candidate material, but current production is labor and cost intensive. Researchers combined …

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• Published on September 10, 2024 - 21:07 GMT

  

  Studying Lithium Silicates to Fuel Fusion Reactions

  The Science Researchers studied the behavior of lithium silicates under ion irradiation at high temperatures to emulate the conditions after one year inside the SlimCS DEMO fusion reactor. They first fabricated pellets of lithium orthosilicate (Li4SiO4) …

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• Published on September 10, 2024 - 20:43 GMT

  

  PNNL Facilitates Department of State Chemical Forensics Workshop

  Staff at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) Jonathan Forman, Raul Aranzazu, and George Bonheyo recently traveled to Cyprus to facilitate a multilateral workshop on chemical forensics investigations. The workshop, titled Saharan Fox, was hosted by …

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• Published on September 10, 2024 - 20:43 GMT

  

  Exploring the Future of Aviation Security

  In the wake of technological advances like higher-resolution imagery and artificial intelligence, what does the future of aviation security look like? How can science and technology improve the traveler experience while reducing risk? This was the focus of …

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• Published on September 10, 2024 - 17:21 GMT

  

  Three PNNL Researchers Receive DOE Early Career Research Awards

  The Department of Energy (DOE) selected Gavin Cornwell, Sneha Couvillion, and Bo Peng of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to receive 2024 Early Career Research Program awards. The three researchers work in fields that represent major areas of …

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• Published on September 10, 2024 - 12:02 GMT

  

  PNNL Takes Its Radiation Expertise to Space

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—An experiment designed to answer questions about the radiation environment for manned space missions launched from Kennedy Space Center today. For the five-day mission, experiments from the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest …

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• Published on September 9, 2024 - 20:53 GMT

  

  Cloud as Stumbling Block for the Propagation of the Southern Annular Mode

  The Science The Southern Annular Mode (SAM), with an iconic dipolar zonal wind pattern centered around the axis of storm track, is the most dominant mode of variability orchestrating the weathers and wind from the subtropics to the pole. Its origin, …

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• Published on September 6, 2024 - 22:11 GMT

  

  Waste Management Symposia Honors PNNL Research

  The 2024 Waste Management Symposia honored Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) researchers with “Papers of Note” awards on five papers and “Superior Paper” designations for 17 papers.  The Waste Management Symposia is regarded as the world’s …

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