Malin M. Young, a biochemist who leads PNNL's science and technology strategy, has been elected to the rank of fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. AAAS is the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society …
When mass casualty incidents occur — shootings, earthquakes, multiple car pile ups — first responders can easily be overwhelmed by the sheer number of victims. When every second counts, monitoring all the victims in a chaotic situation can be difficult. …
Internationally recognized isotope geochemistry expert John Eiler, has joined Pacific Northwest National Laboratory as a jointly appointed researcher from the California Institute of Technology. Eiler is a Robert P. Sharp distinguished professor of Geology …
Strong monsoons in the Indian Ocean can induce easterly winds that push Atlantic Ocean hurricanes westward, increasing the likelihood they'll make landfall in the Americas, according to new research. A new study finds that in years where summer …
The U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Oregon State University are launching the PNNL-OSU Distinguished Graduate Research Program — an internationally competitive program for graduate students to prepare for impactful …
Carbon-rich pollution converted to a jet fuel will power a commercial flight for the first time today. The Virgin Atlantic Airlines' flight from Orlando to London using a Boeing 747 will usher in a new era for low-carbon aviation that has been years …
On Monday, September 24, the U.S. Department of Energy announced $218 million in funding for dozens of research awards in the field of Quantum Information Science. Nearly $2 million was awarded to DOE’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for a new …
The U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued its annual report on distributed wind capacity that shows larger installations of distributed wind power almost doubled in 2017. Distributed wind power is very localized, …
Chris Deeney joined the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory as chief science and technology officer for the national security mission area. His responsibilities include providing senior leadership in strategy development for …
VOLTTRON is an innovative open source software platform that helps users rapidly develop and deploy new control solutions for a myriad of applications in buildings, renewable energy systems and electricity grid systems. Developed by Pacific Northwest …
A consortium of national labs and nonprofit organizations has announced a call for concepts to engage the smart grid community in demonstrating visionary interoperability capabilities on how facilities with distributed energy resources, or DERs, integrate …
The vast reservoir of carbon stored beneath our feet is entering Earth's atmosphere at an increasing rate, most likely as a result of warming temperatures, suggest observations collected from a variety of the Earth's many ecosystems. Blame microbes …
Three scientists at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have been elected members of the Washington State Academy of Sciences, along with a former PNNL scientist. Morris Bullock, Yuehe Lin, and Sotiris Xantheas will join an …
For the second time, the U.S. Department of Energy renewed funding for a center designed to explore fundamental scientific principles that underpin technologies such as solar energy and fuel cells. Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, …
Susannah Burrows and Manish Shrivastava of the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have been selected to receive 2018 Early Career Research Program awards from the U.S. Department of Energy. The two are among 84 recipients …
A deep neural network running on an ordinary desktop computer is interpreting highly technical data related to national security as well as — and sometimes better than — today's best automated methods or even human experts. The progress tackling some …
Scientists have obtained a slew of key information about proteins, the molecular workhorses of all cells, from single human cells for the first time. The stockpile of information about proteins — the most such data ever collected from a single mammalian …
For the first time, researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and LCW Supercritical Technologies have created five grams of yellowcake — a powdered form of uranium used to produce fuel for nuclear power production — using acrylic fibers to …
ASTM International recently revised ASTM D7566 Annex A5 — the Standard Specification for Aviation Turbine Fuel Containing Synthesized Hydrocarbons — to add ethanol as an approved feedstock for producing alcohol-to-jet synthetic paraffinic kerosene (ATJ-SPK …
An organic molecule used in dyes and antibiotics may be the key to less expensive, more efficient redox flow batteries. Scientists at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory developed a highly reversible, water soluble material …
