Both the region and the nation's power grid will benefit from over 80 new research and development projects announced today by Energy Secretary Earnest Moniz. The awards go to the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and …
Scientists have shown that a process known as oxidative stress is at work during encounters between certain nanoparticles and immune cells, selectively modifying proteins on macrophages, a type of immune cell. The findings, by researchers at the Department …
Seashells and lobster claws are hard to break, but chalk is soft enough to draw on sidewalks. Though all three are made of calcium carbonate crystals, the hard materials include clumps of soft biological matter that make them much stronger. A study today …
Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection is improving radiation scanning equipment used at many of our nation's ports of entry. Radiation portal monitors now better detect radiological threats while alarming much less frequently …
Enjoying the beauty of science year-round is easy with a new digital calendar and computer wallpaper containing captivating images that illustrate research at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The 2016 calendar and …
A contract has been awarded to DGR*Grant Construction Inc. of Richland to build a new, two-story office building at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The 26,000-square-foot facility will house over 100 PNNL staff engaged …
Energy storage system owners could see significant savings from a new flow battery technology that is projected to cost 60 percent less than today's standard flow batteries. The organic aqueous flow battery, described in a paper published in the …
Six scientists at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are included in a new analysis of scientists whose work is cited most often by their peers. The analysis published this week by Thomson Reuters recognizes scientists who …
The electric grid has to balance power supply and demand nearly in real-time, requiring power plants to be adjusted on a second-by-second basis. This instantaneous balance is made significantly more complex by renewable energy such as wind and solar, which …
What is the energy of a single electron whirling? Physics World, the magazine published by the U.K.'s Institute of Physics, has named work that answers this question one of the top ten breakthroughs of 2015. The collaboration that made this discovery, …
The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been named a supporting Laboratory to the National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center. NISAC is a Department of Homeland Security program that addresses the potential …
A chemist and acting director of physical and computational sciences at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been elected to the rank of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Louis Terminello …
More than 190 countries are meeting in Paris next week to create a durable framework for addressing climate change and to implement a process to reduce greenhouse gases over time. A key part of this agreement would be the pledges made by individual …
A research team at the University of Washington has demonstrated — for the first time — that lasers can cool liquids in real-world conditions. The findings were published Nov. 20 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The lead author, …
Three technologies — a computational tool to improve power grid planning, a process to create biofuel from kelp and a hybrid device that makes hydrogen and stores energy — are being developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and its partners under …
The creation of a new kind of rice which gives off nearly zero greenhouse gas emissions during its growth has earned kudos for a team of scientists from three continents, including the lead investigator at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest …
Technologies that impact cyber security, increase our ability to detect trace amounts of chemicals, convert sewage into fuel, view energy processes under real-world conditions and forecast future electric needs are among the newest R&D 100 award …
Tiny marine organisms that play key roles in global carbon and nutrient cycling will be better understood thanks to new genetic tools being developed at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory through a new grant. PNNL is among …
In the quest for renewable fuels, scientists are taking lessons from a humble bacterium that fills our oceans and covers moist surfaces the world over. While the organism captures light to make food in a process called photosynthesis, scientists have found …
Hot on the tail of this year's Nobel prize in physics, another prize came to the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Collaboration — the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. The honor went to researchers — six of whom are now at the Department of …
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