RICHLAND, Wash.— A new database that makes thousands of the ideas, technologies, methods and software developed by the Department of Energy available in one place has been created by DOE, working closely with software engineers and others at Pacific …
Aerosol particles are tiny. Swirling suspended in the air around us, most are smaller than the smallest bug, thinner than the thinnest hair on your head, gossamer specks practically invisible to the naked eye. Newly formed ones are nano-sized. Yet their …
The Science Evapotranspiration (ET) is the movement of water from land to the atmosphere by evaporation and transpiration. Moisture recycling describes the contribution from local ET to local precipitation. It has been quantified using models that often …
The Science The Slab Ocean Model (SOM) is an approximation of a fully Dynamic Ocean Model (DOM). Unlike a DOM that can simulate changes in ocean circulation, transports, and full-depth temperature and salinity, the SOM is designed to capture temperature …
For those of us in the Tri-Cities, the sprinklers watering our lawns and nourishing our crops are primarily fed by surface water from the Columbia River. Much of the world, however, depends on groundwater from subsurface aquifers to irrigate crops and …
RICHLAND, Wash.—Every second of every day, utilities monitor the flow of power through the nation’s electric grid, monitoring whether power generated matches power demanded by homes, businesses, vehicles and more. For every disruption—a substation outage, …
From the foundations to the emerging frontiers of artificial intelligence (AI), researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) are investigating ways to harness the power of AI to accelerate scientific discovery. Robert Rallo, director of PNNL …
The Science How bacteria eat food, and what kinds of products they can make from that food, is dictated by the metabolic network of enzyme patterns encoded in their genomes. Using computational methods to learn these patterns across a large number of known …
As we look to the sky above and ponder one of the biggest questions of our time—how to combat the carbon emissions that are driving climate change—a potential answer just may lie beneath our feet, in Earth’s deep subsurface. Pacific Northwest National …
RICHLAND, Wash.—The Pacific Northwest is set to begin work building out a clean hydrogen economy with today’s announcement of a Phase 1 funding award from the Department of Energy. The $27.5 million award to the Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Association ( …
Efficient heat pump water heaters (HPWHs) desire nothing more than a warm reception in America’s homes, but sometimes they end up on the outside looking in. It isn’t due to a lack of hospitality. Rather, there’s a need for more public awareness and …
The Science A complex interplay of energetics and dynamics governs the behavior of nanocrystals in solution. These dynamics are usually interpreted in terms of the theory developed by Derjaguin, Landau, Verwey, and Overbeek (DVLO), and understanding these …
RICHLAND, Wash.—Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have been awarded more than 3 million node hours on the nation’s most powerful computers to explore questions around pathogens, climate and energy-efficient …
National laboratory expertise was on display at the 2024 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E) Summit. Hosted by the DHS Science and Technology Directorate's Office of National Laboratories, the …
The Earth’s crust is a complex arrangement of different rock types with different mineral components, and we currently have a limited ability to sense their properties. An emerging technique relies on electrical signals sent underground to identify the …
The Science Clouds affect the Earth’s weather and climate by influencing light, heat, and moisture in the atmosphere. They come in many varieties with unique impacts on the atmosphere. Researchers strive to understand these nuances to accurately model …
The Science Ice nucleating particles (INPs) are a rare subset of particles that can have an outsized impact on weather and clouds by initiating the process of ice formation in clouds. Cloud ice plays an important role in the formation of precipitation as …
RICHLAND, Wash.—Scientists, engineers and other professionals from across the nation will gather at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory on Aug. 2 to inspire, learn and network with fellow professionals. The 2024 Institute of …
Jingshan Du, a Washington Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, attended the 73rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany. Du was one of approximately 600 young scientists from around the world selected …
While the deadly opioid epidemic continues to expand, claiming more lives every day, researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are working to combat the rapidly evolving threat through enhanced detection capabilities. In the article “Fentanyl …
