Every year, the journal Chemical Communications, published by the United Kingdom's Royal Society of Chemistry, singles out up-and-coming researchers as "emerging investigators" for the contributions these early career scientists have already …
The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is part of a nationwide effort to learn more about the role of proteins in cancer biology and to use that information to benefit cancer patients. PNNL is paired with physicians and …
Like driving a car despite a glowing check-engine light, large buildings often chug along without maintenance being performed on the building controls designed to keep them running smoothly. And sometimes those controls aren't used to their full …
For most prematurely born infants, it's not their tiny size itself that makes life a struggle. Rather, it's the development of their lungs that spells the difference between life and death In a bid to learn more about the lungs to help such …
Supercomputers help design automobiles and aircraft, create new medical drugs and discover the mysteries of the universe. Now, in a column for the Tri-City Herald, the director of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Steve Ashby, introduces a new …
Far above the cattle pastures and wheat fields of north-central Oklahoma, weather systems born of different regions — Canada, the Rocky Mountains and the Gulf of Mexico — clash mightily. It's the perfect place to set up sophisticated atmospheric …
U.S. energy production could increase with the help of an improved carbon capture technology that use about half the energy of today's standard technologies. Emissions captured at fossil fuel power plants could in turn be used to harvest more crude by …
Scientists have improved our ability to interpret one of the most common measures of the temperature of Earth's oceans in the distant past. The measurement is based on the ancient remains of tiny marine organisms called foraminifera, a type of plankton …
A giant, inflatable structure designed to prevent flooding in subways was rolled out, literally, for media observers inside a full-scale, mock subway tunnel. As the video shows, in under five minutes it is nearly filled with pressurized air — creating a …
Gerald "Jerry" Posakony, a longtime researcher for the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, passed away May 27, 2017, at the age of 92. Over the course of a career that included more than 40 years at PNNL, Posakony…
A Washington state company that produces a battery based on technology developed at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been honored with a Green Chemistry Challenge Award, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency …
Scientists are taking their cues from fungi in the digestive tracts of cows, goats and sheep in the search for new ways to create sustainable fuels and medicines. It turns out that fungal enzymes in herbivores play well together, teaming up to form …
In the quest for longer-lasting lithium rechargeable batteries, some researchers are looking to use sulfur as electrodes. The chemistry of lithium-sulfur, in theory, could allow electric vehicles to go twice as far as conventional batteries. But, in …
Garry Buchko and his colleagues are at the front line battling some of the most fearsome enemies that humanity has ever known: Tuberculosis. Pneumonia. Ebola. Plague. Botulism. But he is not in a hospital or field tent, taking vital signs or administering …
Analysis of big data that can reveal early signs of an Ebola outbreak or the first traces of a cyberattack require a different kind of processor than has been developed for large-scale scientific studies. Since the data might come from disparate sources — …
The knowledge and expertise of a seasoned energy efficiency professional has been packed into a high-tech suitcase. The Sensor Suitcase is a portable case that contains easy-to-use sensors and other equipment that make it possible for anyone to identify …
Most people think of salmon jumping upriver to spawn when they consider wild fish in the American Northwest. But another, lesser-known species — the Pacific Lamprey — is also culturally and historically important to the region. Lamprey have been on Earth …
Emissions of isoprene, a compound from plant matter that wields great influence in the atmosphere, are up to three times higher in the Amazon rainforest than scientists have thought, according to new findings published this week in Nature Communications. …
Scientists have gotten a better look at the effects of a gene known as the "guardian of the genome" in causing premature births and miscarriages. Trp53 is a well-known tumor suppressor gene that maintains genomic stability under normal conditions …
Scientists have found a genetic modification in fungi that is more common than has been thought, offering scientists a new tool as they explore the use of fungi to convert biomass to fuels, chemicals and enzymes. Jon Magnuson and David Culley of the …
