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Newswise: Geochemist Kevin Rosso Appointed a Battelle Fellow
Released: 13-Jan-2025 3:45 PM EST
Geochemist Kevin Rosso Appointed a Battelle Fellow
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Geochemist Kevin Rosso earns the highest scientific and leadership honor bestowed by PNNL.

Newswise: Identifying the Elements for Carbon Storage
Released: 7-Jan-2025 10:50 PM EST
Identifying the Elements for Carbon Storage
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Led by interns from multiple DOE programs, a newly expanded dataset allows researchers to use easy-to-obtain measurements to determine the elemental composition of a promising carbon storage mineral.

Newswise: Metal Scrap Upcycled into High-Value Alloys with Solid Phase Manufacturing
Released: 12-Dec-2024 8:55 PM EST
Metal Scrap Upcycled into High-Value Alloys with Solid Phase Manufacturing
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Solid phase manufacturing can create new custom metal alloys through an innovative process called solid phase alloying, researchers from PNNL report.

Newswise: Faster, More Informed Environmental Permitting with AI-Guided Support
Released: 3-Dec-2024 6:10 PM EST
Faster, More Informed Environmental Permitting with AI-Guided Support
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Federal environmental permitting process to be fast-tracked with AI-powered tools and cloud-supported data analysis.

Newswise: Delay and Pay: Tipping Point Costs Quadruple After Waiting
Released: 26-Nov-2024 8:50 PM EST
Delay and Pay: Tipping Point Costs Quadruple After Waiting
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Tip the first tile in a line of dominoes and you’ll set off a chain reaction, one tile falling after another. Cross a tipping point in the climate system and, similarly, you might spark a cascading set of consequences like hastened warming, rising sea levels and increasingly extreme weather.

Newswise: Data Scientist Fixes His Sights on Speeding Up Drug Discovery
Released: 25-Nov-2024 12:30 PM EST
Data Scientist Fixes His Sights on Speeding Up Drug Discovery
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Scientists are using artificial intelligence and powerful computing to sculpt new molecules in an effort to treat disease.

Newswise: How ‘Clean’ Does a Quantum Computing Test Facility Need to Be? PNNL Scientists Show the Way
Released: 13-Nov-2024 9:50 AM EST
How ‘Clean’ Does a Quantum Computing Test Facility Need to Be? PNNL Scientists Show the Way
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

How to keep stray radiation from “shorting” superconducting qubits; a pair of studies shows where ionizing radiation is lurking and how to banish it.

Newswise: Hydropower Digital Twins Solution Helps with Operator Challenges
Released: 11-Nov-2024 9:35 AM EST
Hydropower Digital Twins Solution Helps with Operator Challenges
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

A new digital twin platform can help hydropower dam operators by providing accurate and predictive models of physical turbines that improve facilities and enhance reliability.

Released: 1-Nov-2024 1:00 PM EDT
Researchers Develop High-Tech Methods to Stem the Flow of Fentanyl
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Scientists are developing ways to detect and identify not only new, previously unseen forms of fentanyl but also newer and more dangerous synthetic opioids known as nitazenes.

Newswise: Hunting for Dark Matter Axions
Released: 30-Oct-2024 2:20 PM EDT
Hunting for Dark Matter Axions
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

The search for dark matter includes expertise in radio frequency signal detection, quantum sensing, and high-energy physics at PNNL.

Newswise: Collaboration Speeds Complex Chemical Modeling
Released: 29-Oct-2024 4:20 PM EDT
Collaboration Speeds Complex Chemical Modeling
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

A recent collaboration among researchers from HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics in Hungary and the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, along with industry collaborators SandboxAQ and NVIDIA, has achieved unprecedented speed and performance in efforts to model complex metal-containing molecules.

Released: 28-Oct-2024 11:35 AM EDT
Scientists Address Risks to Supply Chain in a Connected World
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Protecting critical systems such as the electrical grid and water treatment plants from cyber-based risks to the supply chain is the focus of a new conference at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Released: 28-Oct-2024 7:00 AM EDT
Researchers Eye ‘Topological Signatures’ of Cyber Threats
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

PNNL researchers are developing a new approach to explore the higher-dimensional shape of cyber systems to identify signatures of adversarial attacks.

Released: 23-Oct-2024 9:00 AM EDT
Soils from Six Continents Add Up to Largest Database of Viruses Beneath Our Feet
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Scientists have plumbed the depths of nearly 3,000 soil samples from around the globe to put together the heftiest atlas of soil viruses ever created. But what are all those viruses doing in the soil? More than 97 percent are considered “viral dark matter” that have no known function.

Newswise: Cloud Computing Captures Chemistry Code
15-Oct-2024 3:10 PM EDT
Cloud Computing Captures Chemistry Code
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

The speed and agility of cloud computing opens doors to completing advanced computational chemistry workflows in days instead of months.

Newswise: Security Professionals Face Cyberattacks in Real-Time Trainings at PNNL
Released: 16-Oct-2024 12:30 PM EDT
Security Professionals Face Cyberattacks in Real-Time Trainings at PNNL
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Operators of critical infrastructure are trained to respond to cyberattacks using scale models of water treatment plants, freight rail yards, and more.

Newswise: AI-Guided Experiments Speed Scientific Discovery
Released: 25-Sep-2024 7:05 PM EDT
AI-Guided Experiments Speed Scientific Discovery
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Finding a needle in a haystack is the quintessentially impossible task. But what if new tools could make it straightforwardly achievable? Imagine if, instead of searching through everything by hand, you could portion out small piles of hay and use magnets.

Newswise: Flexible Circuits Made with Silk and Graphene on the Horizon
16-Sep-2024 11:05 AM EDT
Flexible Circuits Made with Silk and Graphene on the Horizon
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Ultra-thin layers of silk deposited on graphene in perfect alignment represent a key advance for the control needed in microelectronics and advanced neural network development.

Newswise: Three PNNL Researchers Receive DOE Early Career Research Awards
Released: 11-Sep-2024 1:05 PM EDT
Three PNNL Researchers Receive DOE Early Career Research Awards
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

The Department of Energy (DOE) selected Gavin Cornwell, Sneha Couvillion, and Bo Peng of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to receive 2024 Early Career Research Program awards. The three researchers work in fields that represent major areas of focus for PNNL: Earth science, biology, and chemistry.



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