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Three PNNL Researchers Receive DOE Early Career Research Awards

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...
11-Sep-2024 1:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Research Vessel Resilience Charts Course to the Future of Marine Research

SEQUIM, Wash.—Officials gathered at the Sequim campus of the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory today to dedicate DOE’s first hybrid-electric research vessel, RV Resilience.The event marks the start of a new era of...
5-Sep-2024 5:30 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Tackling One of the Most Extreme Environments on Earth: Nuclear Waste

The complicated chemistry of legacy nuclear waste presents a challenge in environmental management. The presence of radioactive ions induces chemical changes that range from faster than the blink of an eye to decades in the making. Since 2016,...
5-Sep-2024 5:30 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Long-Duration Energy Storage Can’t Wait

Long-duration energy storage gets the spotlight in a new Energy Storage Research Alliance featuring PNNL innovations, like a molecular digital twin and advanced instrumentation.
3-Sep-2024 2:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Hands in the Glove Box

An international collaboration to protect the world from nuclear threats got a boost in 2023 when a visiting researcher brought an understudied plutonium processing chemistry method to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) for hands-on...
29-Aug-2024 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Digging into Death to Save the Living

Kabrena Rodda, manager of the Analytical Chemistry and Instrumentation Group at PNNL, received the distinction of ACS Fellow.
29-Aug-2024 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Sniff Test for Explosives Detection Extends Its Reach

Scientists have developed a way to detect tiny amounts of hard-to-detect explosives more than eight feet away.
20-Aug-2024 10:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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An Electric Grid That Thinks Ahead

Researchers are planning for an electric grid that deploys machine learning to think ahead, plan for the worst, anticipate demand, and meet consumer needs safely and securely.
19-Aug-2024 5:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites


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Input from humans helps when deciding whether to trust the recommendations and decisions of a machine-learning system.
20-Nov-2023 12:30 AM EST

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PNNL Scientist Inspires Next Generation at the National Science Bowl

Physicist Emily Mace will share her science journey and an interactive presentation about her current research with middle school and high school students from across the country at the National Science Bowl.
24-Apr-2023 6:05 PM EDT

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Mentoring the Next Generation STEM Workforce

Mentoring interns creates opportunities to inspire the future, diverse workforce with pathways into STEM careers.
27-Oct-2022 2:30 PM EDT

Well, This Is Cool: PNNL’s Bruce Kay Is A Supercooled Water Expert

Bruce Kay is an international authority on how water, and whose research examines how fast reactions occur between molecules and surfaces and also how they convert from solid to liquid to gas.
30-Aug-2021 3:45 PM EDT

A Call to Rethink Electricity Measurement

PNNL researcher's proposed overhaul of outdated electricity measurements could mean fewer blackouts, better automation, and more clean energy resources.
4-Aug-2021 8:45 AM EDT

Energy Technologies Move Closer to Commercial Use

Federal and industry-matched funding will move 11 PNNL technologies closer to commercialization where they will help bolster U.S. competitiveness.
28-Jun-2021 3:05 PM EDT

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