Maria Vlachopoulou, an engineer at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, has been recognized as IEEE/IEEE-USA's 2013 New Faces of Engineering honoree during National Engineer Week (Feb. 17-23, 2013). The honor highlights …
Columbia Basin College is starting a new, comprehensive program in Cybersecurity to include a one-year certificate, two-year associate's degree, and a Bachelor of Applied Science degree program. The certificate and associate degree programs will start …
Darrell Fisher, a radiation scientist with the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, has been elected president of the Health Physics Society, a 5,000-member, internationally recognized scientific organization of professionals …
Rust — iron oxide — is a poor conductor of electricity, which is why an electronic device with a rusted battery usually won't work. But electrons do move through iron oxide — on seemingly geologic timescales. Now, scientists explain how electrons do …
Today's light-emitting diode light bulbs have a slight environmental edge over compact fluorescent lamps. And that gap is expected to grow significantly as technology and manufacturing methods improve in the next five years, according to a new report …
Combining two well-established analytic techniques and adding a twist identifies proteins from blood with as much accuracy and sensitivity as the antibody-based tests used clinically, researchers report this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of …
When you take a dip in the ocean, nuclear fuel is probably the farthest thing from your mind. Uranium floats in Earth's oceans in trace amounts of just 3 parts per billion, but it adds up. Combined, our oceans hold up to 4.5 billion tons of uranium - …
An analysis of a decade's worth of tropical cyclones shows that when hurricanes blow over ocean regions swamped by fresh water, the conditions can unexpectedly intensify the storm. Although the probability that hurricanes will hit such conditions is …
Two scientists at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have been named American Chemical Society Fellows. PNNL chemists Chuck Peden and Morris Bullock are among 96 distinguished researchers nationwide recognized in 2012 by …
Sherry L. Cady, an expert on how microbes living in extreme environments interact with and influence their surroundings, has joined the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. She will serve as the chief science officer for DOE…
A first-of-its-kind self-evaluation model and survey will provide utilities with a way to benchmark and measure their cybersecurity readiness. Announced today by U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, the Electricity Sector Cybersecurity Capability Maturity …
A team of contributors from universities, industry and national laboratories has created a publication aimed at helping industrial and institutional researchers work together more effectively. "The Researcher Guidebook - A Guide for Successful …
Capturing and storing carbon dioxide, or CO 2 , away from the atmosphere as a way of reducing the impacts of climate change is an emerging field of scientific study, and it also could be a fantastic career opportunity. On July 31, nationally-renowned CO 2 …
The rise of ocean infrastructure development to tap energy sources such as tides, offshore wind and natural gas will require more pile driving, the practice of pounding long, hollow steel pipes called piles into the ocean floor to support energy turbines …
Two innovations developed by researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory were recognized by R&D Magazine today as among the past year's 100 most significant scientific and technological products or advances …
The design of a nature-inspired material that can make energy-storing hydrogen gas has gone holistic. Usually, tweaking the design of this particular catalyst — a work in progress for cheaper, better fuel cells — results in either faster or more energy …
Jud Virden , a 20-year laboratory veteran with experience creating energy research partnerships with U.S. industry, has been named associate laboratory director for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Energy and Environment Directorate . In …
Individual homes and entire neighborhoods could be powered with a new, small-scale solid oxide fuel cell system that achieves up to 57 percent efficiency, significantly higher than the 30 to 50 percent efficiencies previously reported for other solid oxide …
Pollution is warming the atmosphere through summer thunderstorm clouds, according to a computational study published May 10 in Geophysical Research Letters. How much the warming effect of these clouds offsets the cooling that other clouds provide is not …
Some types of breast cancer can be successfully treated with drugs such as tamoxifen, but treatment for a type of breast cancer more common in young and black women is still limited to radiation and general chemotherapy. Called triple negative breast …
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