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| 02.06.2026 | Microsoft Discovery Reaches GA at Build 2026 Bringing Agentic AI to Scientific Research | News Microsoft Discovery Reaches GA at Build 2026 Bringing Agentic AI to Scientific Research By Chris PaoliJune 02, 2026
Key Takeaways
Microsoft Discovery reaches general availability, bringing agentic AI to scientific research and developm... |
| 29.05.2026 | Report Highlights PNNL’s AI-Driven One Health Security | In the wake of an infectious disease, the health of humans, animals, plants, and the environment presents a complicated nexus with global impacts. A new report highlights a public workshop hosted by the National Academies Forum on Microbial... |
| 28.05.2026 | New AI Model Predicts Weld and Material Strength on the Fly | Picture a drill spinning so fast that the friction it generates can soften and mix metal, allowing it to transform the microstructure of those metals to repair or strengthen them. This advanced manufacturing technology—called friction stir—... |
| 28.05.2026 | PNNL Researchers Showcase AI Leadership at AI+ Expo | Beneath the glow of exhibit hall banners and the hum of thousands of conversations championing AI as the next engine of economic strength and national security, quieter discussions were taking shape at the AI+ Expo in Washington, D.C., abou... |
| 27.05.2026 | AI Speeds Selective and High-Yield Recovery of Critical Minerals from Industrial Waste | RICHLAND, Wash.—A research team at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has deployed AI agents with the potential to accelerate the recovery of critical minerals from real-world industrial waste in days instead o... |
| 26.05.2026 | Panel Spotlights National Laboratories and Geospatial Missions | At a recent annual geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) conference, Senior Data Scientist Adam Attarian participated in a panel discussing how national laboratories are delivering science, technology, and partnerships to enhance modeling, analy... |
| 19.05.2026 | PNNL Appoints Senior Leaders to Help Drive Science and National Security Strategies | RICHLAND, Wash. — In a year marked by growing integration across its research programs, the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has selected two senior leaders with strong technical backgrounds to fill roles focused... |
| 17.05.2026 | Angelo Zandona Highlights the Role of NFPA 68 and NFPA 69 in BESS Design | Share
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According to the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) BESS Failure Incident Database, the global rate of battery energy storage system failures dropped a remarkable 98% per gigawatt-hour deploy... |
| 15.05.2026 | Hsin-Mei Kao Wins Best Poster Award | Hsin-Mei Kao, an Oregon State University (OSU) graduate student working at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) with scientists Yingge Du and Zihua Zhu, received the Edwin Fuller Student Poster Award first prize at the American Cera... |
| 13.05.2026 | Partnership with International Nuclear Organization to Grow Tomorrow’s Leaders | Last June, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Graduate Fellowship Program (NGFP) reached a milestone with the Class of 2025–2026.
It represented the 30th cohort of the program, and the 72 fellows in the class join more than... |
| 11.05.2026 | PNNL Team Secures National Accreditation for Radiological Response Training | Kristen Backstrom, Tanya Korotkov, and Derek Higgins of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) recently led a team effort that secured external accreditation for the Office of Radiological Security (ORS) Radiological Security Awarenes... |
| 11.05.2026 | Top-Down Proteomics Reveals Alterations in Histone Proteoforms Following Human Coronavirus 229E Infection | The Science
Viruses rely on host machinery to replicate, and growing evidence demonstrates that they utilize host epigenetic regulation, including histone modification, to modulate host gene expression for their benefit. Pacific Northwest N... |
| 08.05.2026 | New “Energy Skilled” Google Badge Helps Consumers Find Skilled Home Energy Specialists | RICHLAND, Wash.—Selecting a contractor or home energy auditor can be stressful when online search engines offer thousands of results. To give consumers a break from wading through endless search results, the Department of Energy has teamed ... |
| 07.05.2026 | PNNL Launches Enhanced Grid Visibility and Event Response Effort to Tackle Energy Security Challenges | RICHLAND, Wash.—The Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has established the Enhanced Visibility and Event Response capability to help grid operators adapt to a rapidly evolving electricity system and thwart potentia... |
| 04.05.2026 | Introducing HiVe: A Breakthrough Faster, Cheaper Joining Technique from PNNL | RICHLAND, Wash.—Every year, billions of metal pieces are joined together to build millions of vehicles in the United States. These joints must sustain not just regular wear and tear, but also potentially catastrophic forces.
Manufacturers h... |
| 30.04.2026 | PNNL Researchers to Speak About Genesis Mission at National Science Bowl | RICHLAND, Wash. — Student winners of this year’s regional National Science Bowl competitions will hear about the future of AI from two researchers from the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory this spring. The nation... |
| 29.04.2026 | Exploring the Exposome | Take a brief walk outside and you’re likely to encounter a wide range of things that could influence your health—the sunlight beaming on your face, a plume of exhaust, or even noise from a car driving by. Each exposure carries with it the p... |
| 28.04.2026 | PNNL Scientists Leverage AI to Optimize Glass Formulas for Liquid Radioactive Waste | RICHLAND, Wash. — Scientists have used the power of AI to analyze and predict the conversion of liquid radioactive waste into solid glass waste forms, increasing the amount of waste that goes into each container of glass produced and reduci... |
| 27.04.2026 | Decoding the Language of Plants and Microbes Using AI | Biologists and engineers have been working together over decades to decipher the language of biology. Now, they are teaching AI models to interpret that knowledge and harness it for national priorities through the Orchestrated Platform for ... |
| 24.04.2026 | PNNL Showcases Innovation at ARPA E Summit | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) researchers attended the Department of Energy’s annual Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA‑E) Energy Innovation Summit. There, thousands of leaders from government, academia, and indus... |
| 23.04.2026 | AI Accelerators Deliver Accurate Models for Challenging Quantum Chemistry Calculations | RICHLAND, Wash.—The most demanding calculations in quantum chemistry can now be solved with graphic processing unit (GPU) supercomputers. A recently published study shows that software adapted to use GPU hardware can provide not just speed,... |
| 22.04.2026 | PNNL Names Three Senior Leaders to Key Management Roles | RICHLAND, Wash.—Three senior leaders have been appointed to roles guiding research programs and operations at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
William A. “Bill” Pike will serve as deputy director for sc... |
| 27.02.2026 | Workshop Engages Republic of Namibia on Counterproliferation Finance Frameworks | Subject matter experts from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) engaged representatives from the Republic of Namibia to strengthen legal frameworks covering counterproliferation financing and operational capacities to address proli... |
| 20.02.2026 | Environmental Remediation Experts Explore Shared Challenges | From subsurface monitoring demos to deep dives into modeling, system integration, and adaptive site management, the 2025 Global Summit on Environmental Remediation showcased the advantages of coordinated, science-driven strategies to addres... |
| 20.02.2026 | Six PNNL Researchers Win DOE Early Career Research Awards | RICHLAND, Wash.—The Department of Energy granted early career awards to six researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory—a record number of recipients for PNNL in a single year. The prestigious award is designated for outstanding sc... |
| 17.02.2026 | Project Omega Fuels America's Nuclear Future: $12M for Spent Fuel Recycling | Project Omega, a Washington-based advanced nuclear recycling firm, has launched with $12 million in seed funding. This capital fuels a groundbreaking mission: transforming America's spent nuclear fuel from waste into a strategic national re... |
| 13.02.2026 | Project Omega: $12 Million Seed Funding Raised To Rebuild America’s Spent Nuclear Fuel | Project Omega, an advanced nuclear recycling company, has emerged from stealth with a plan to rebuild the United States’ nuclear fuel cycle end to end, positioning spent nuclear fuel as a strategic energy and materials resource rather than ... |
| 12.02.2026 | Project Omega Raises $12M in Seed Funding | Project Omega, a Washington, D.C.-based developer of advanced nuclear recycling technology, raised $12m in Seed funding.
The round was led by Starship Ventures, with participation from Mantis Ventures, Buckley Ventures, Decisive Point, and ... |
| 11.02.2026 | Earthquake Data Provide Solid Footing for AI Foundation Science Model | RICHLAND, Wash.—There’s been a seismic shift in science, with scientists developing new AI tools and applying AI to just about any question that can be asked.
Researchers are now putting actual seismic waves to work, using data from the wor... |
| 09.02.2026 | Curio Wins DOE Grant To Scale NuCycle Used-Fuel Recycling Technology | Curio, a developer of advanced nuclear recycling technologies, said it has received a cost-share award from the U.S. Department of Energy to accelerate development of its proprietary NuCycle process for recycling used nuclear fuel from ligh... |
| 06.02.2026 | Purvine Elected to American Mathematical Society Council | Emilie Purvine, a chief data scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), was elected as a council member at large of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Purvine joins representatives from universities across the country ... |
| 02.02.2026 | PNNL’s Rebecca O’Neil Testifies Before Congress on Energy Infrastructure Security | Rebecca O’Neil, a research principal in the Energy and Environment Directorate at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), was invited to testify before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee on Energy on January 13,... |
| 02.02.2026 | Secretary Wright Celebrates Scientific Innovation at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | The Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Chris Wright paid his first visit to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) late last year. Wright met with leading innovators in chemistry, biology, and computing to learn more about PNNL’s st... |
| 26.01.2026 | DOE’s Under Secretary for Science Visits PNNL, Highlights Lab’s Role in AI-Driven Discovery | The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Under Secretary for Science Darío Gil recently paid his first visit to DOE’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), where he highlighted the critical role that PNNL plays in DOE’s mission to advance... |
| 13.01.2026 | Making Mentorship Golden by Uplifting Others | Maria Glenski believes that being a better mentor has made her a stronger researcher. Her commitment to developing others has been recognized with the 2025 Gold Stevie Award for Mentor/Coach of the Year in the government or nonprofit catego... |
| 13.01.2026 | Grid Storage Launchpad Opens Doors for Grid-Scale Battery Testing | RICHLAND, Wash.—Battery companies can now apply to have their grid-scale energy storage systems independently tested at the Department of Energy’s Grid Storage Launchpad, housed at DOE’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
To connect to ... |
| 12.01.2026 | Adding Batteries to Hydropower Facilities Could Increase Dam Lifespan, Potential Revenue | In its current form, the nation’s electric grid largely doesn’t store energy. The vast majority of electricity generated by fossil fuels, hydropower, and other sources flows into the grid and is immediately used by consumers. But as battery... |
| 09.01.2026 | Local Magnetic Field Gradients Enable Critical Material Separations | The Science
Rare earth elements (REEs) are crucial for energy-related applications and are expected to play an increasingly important role in emerging technologies. However, these elements have very similar chemical properties and naturally... |
| 09.01.2026 | Critical Mineral Compounds Respond Differently to Magnets | The Science
Magnetic beneficiation has historically been used as a solid-phase pretreatment step to upgrade low-grade ores to higher-grade concentrates by removing waste material. Magnetic fields are currently being explored for atom- and e... |
| 08.01.2026 | Generative AI Speeds up Cybersecurity Defenses | SEATTLE—Scientists are using generative AI to accelerate a key step in the defense against cyberattacks, performing complex operations in minutes instead of weeks.
The team led by Loc Truong at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest N... |
| 06.01.2026 | Yousu Chen and Jeff Dagle Named IEEE Fellows | Two distinguished electrical engineers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Yousu Chen and Jeff Dagle, have been named fellows of the IEEE. This respected recognition is awarded to individuals who have demonstrated exceptional... |
| 05.01.2026 | Discoveries Rewrite How Some Minerals Form and Dissolve | RICHLAND, Wash.—Two related discoveries detailing nanocrystalline mineral formation and dynamics have broad implications for managing nuclear waste, predicting soil weathering, designing advanced bioproducts and materials and optimizing com... |
| 31.12.2025 | Session at Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing Focuses on Finding Function in Biological Dark Matter | PNNL computational scientist Jason McDermott is kicking off the New Year with hundreds of like-minded individuals at the annual Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB). The symposium aims to capture databases, algorithms, interfaces, visual... |
| 19.12.2025 | Yong Wang Appointed Director of Institute for Integrated Catalysis | Yong Wang, a chemical engineer and joint appointee at Washington State University (WSU) and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), has been appointed the director of PNNL’s Institute for Integrated Catalysis (IIC). Wang has served as... |
| 19.12.2025 | Zheng Received Faculty Lecture Award | Renyu Zheng, a graduate student at the University of Washington (UW) who has performed research at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), was selected for the 2025 UW Chemical Engineering (ChemE) Department’s Faculty Lecture Award. T... |
| 30.09.2025 | Community Event Empowers People with AI Tools | By now, anyone with a smart phone has encountered generative AI (GenAI). The fast-moving technology has been rapidly adopted by companies, schools, and health care providers, among others.
But many people who could benefit from mastering AI... |
| 30.09.2025 | Massive Datasets Meet Their Match | Just as streaming services have replaced CDs and DVDs by letting people watch or listen without downloading the content first, data streaming lets scientists analyze raw data from tools like microscopes and drones without needing to save th... |
| 30.09.2025 | Autonomous Synthesis for Redox Flow Batteries | Chemical reactions are complicated, with lots of different variables that can be tuned during an optimization process. Given the vast number of possible combinations, researchers have turned to high-throughput experimentation combined with ... |
| 24.09.2025 | Redox-Driven Protein Complexes Signal Metabolic Modulation in Cyanobacteria | The Science
Through photosynthesis, cyanobacteria harvest energy from light to fix carbon dioxide into glucose during the daytime. This glucose is used to create valuable chemical products to fuel their activities at night. Modeling this pr... |
| 17.09.2025 | Breakthrough Could Bring Friction Stir Welding to Assembly Lines | A spinning tool plunges into two pieces of metal, rotating at a high rate of speed. As the tool begins to move, it softens and mixes the metal, creating a powerful weld—one that can securely join similar and dissimilar materials (particular... |
| 12.09.2025 | Nanoscale Interactions in Magnetic Fields for Critical Material Separations | The Science
Magnetic fields influence groups of ions and particles in solutions, but the exact details of these effects remain unclear. Researchers developed a new theoretical framework to better understand and predict how external magnetic... |
| 12.09.2025 | From Vision to Reality: PNNL Team Honored for Transforming Secure Communications | A team of researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has received the prestigious 2025 National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Chief Information Officer (CIO) Achievement Award for developing an innovative solution ... |
| 08.09.2025 | Rainwater harvesting grows in the Southwest and beyond to nourish thirsty gardens in a hotter world | By ANITA SNOW
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Nothing makes Brad Lancaster happier than a monsoon downpour. Related Articles
This hidden electricity drain can have a massive impact
Gardening’s hidden benefits: How digging in the dirt could bolster men... |
| 04.09.2025 | Deborah Gracio Selected to Lead Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | RICHLAND, WA—Battelle announced today that Deborah (Deb) Gracio has been appointed as the next director of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), effective October 1. Gracio succeeds Steven Ashby who announced his intent to step asid... |
| 26.08.2025 | Summit Showcases Partnerships, Tech for Homeland Security | Advances in artificial intelligence (AI), advanced imaging, and cybersecurity are changing the fight against evolving threats. Researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) shared how their science and technology are enhanci... |
| 21.08.2025 | Increasing Model Spatial Resolution Fails to Reduce Simulated Storm Biases | The Science
Accurately predicting impacts from storms depends on accurately simulating their growth as a function of atmospheric conditions. Using a model setup like those used for operational forecasting, results show that total storm rain... |
| 18.08.2025 | Grid Storage Launchpad Celebrates First Year of Operations | One year ago, the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Grid Storage Launchpad (GSL) opened its doors to accelerate the development of energy storage technology.
Now, the facility is brimming with energy storage research, from synthesizing new mol... |
| 15.08.2025 | Ginkgo Bioworks Reports $50 Million in Q2 Revenue, Focuses on Biosecurity and Automation Growth | Ginkgo Bioworks, a company focused on cell programming and biosecurity, released its financial results for the second quarter of 2025, reporting a decrease in overall revenue compared to the same period last year.
For the second quarter, Gi... |
| 14.08.2025 | PNNL Experts Share Their Insights at the Risk Reduction Science and Policy Forum | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) was well represented by mathematician and senior technical adviser Aaron Luttman and science and technology adviser Jonathan Forman at “The Risk Reduction Science and Policy Forum” organized by J... |
| 14.08.2025 | Lights, Camera, Athena! | In high school, Brienne Seiner was passionate about her theatre activities, both behind the scenes and on stage. Today, as an advisor at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Seiner channels that creativity into her many roles, whic... |
| 14.08.2025 | PNNL Research Featured at World's Second-Largest Machine Learning Conference | We are currently witnessing one of the most rapid transformations of our technological landscape—AI is ubiquitous, appearing on our phones, our computers, in the news, and in our conversations with family and friends.
The incredible rise of... |
| 14.08.2025 | Waste Management Symposia 2025 Recognizes PNNL Research | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) researchers received honors—including six “Superior Papers” and two “Papers of Note”—for their research and presentations at the 2025 Waste Management Symposia (WM2025).
The Waste Management Symp... |
| 11.08.2025 | Graphene Oxide Sheet Size Controls Rare Earth Element Separations | The Science
Separating critical materials, specifically rare earth elements, from unconventional liquid feedstocks is essential to establishing and maintaining robust and secure domestic supply chains. Graphene oxide (GO) membranes represen... |
| 24.07.2025 | How do Particles Move Through Rivers to Coasts? | Called the arteries of the nation, U.S. waterways are valuable natural resources and key routes for transporting people and goods—but that’s not all they transport. On a microscopic level, particles from a variety of sources—including from ... |
| 22.07.2025 | Scientists Investigate Use of AI to Speed Analysis of Nuclear Materials | RICHLAND, Wash.—Scientists have tapped artificial intelligence and powerful computing to take a first step to speed up how quickly officials are able to learn important details about nuclear events such as explosions, accidents or industria... |
| 22.07.2025 | Contest Shows Creative Side of Scientists | Artistic representations of scientific progress often depict a single genius working alone in a laboratory to make exciting discoveries. But reality features collaboration, with numerous researchers coming together and bringing their distin... |
| 21.07.2025 | Ion Incorporation Affects Mineral Behavior | The Science
Metals, including critical materials or harmful pollutants, can incorporate into minerals in small quantities. These metals act as dopants and can dramatically affect the minerals’ properties. The minerals can then store or tran... |
| 21.07.2025 | Laying the Groundwork for a Quantum Leap in Chemistry | Quantum computing has arrived. Now, what do we do with it?
Scientists have argued for decades that a computer operating in the quantum realm is uniquely suited to solving complicated quantum chemistry problems. But which ones? When there ar... |
| 21.07.2025 | PNNL Scientist Designing Tools for Imaging Carbohydrates in Human Kidneys and Brains | Dušan Veličković, a mass spectrometry imaging scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), recently received a $2.1 million grant to develop techniques to understand how changes in carbohydrate structure affect human health.
T... |
| 15.07.2025 | PNNL Researchers Work to Make Industrial Catalytic Converters More Efficient | Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are helping to reduce the nation’s dependence on critical minerals and increase energy efficiency by improving the performance and longevity of catalysts for a ... |
| 10.07.2025 | PNNL Chief Commercialization Officer Leads a National Academies Panel | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) Chief Commercialization Officer Christina Lomasney was selected to lead a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Government-University-Industry-Philanthropy Research Roundtable... |
| 08.07.2025 | Characterizing Giant Storm Precipitation in the Central Amazon | The Science
The prediction of rainfall over the Amazon rainforest by weather and climate models is highly uncertain, particularly for large rainstorms which are commonly seen during the wet season, from March to May. Using an advanced objec... |
| 08.07.2025 | Coastal Collaborators: Water, Plants, and Ecosystems | The Science
Due to their inherent variability and complexity over space and time, scientists are challenged to understand the complex interactions among soil, vegetation, and water along coastal terrestrial-aquatic interfaces (TAI). This re... |
| 02.07.2025 | Improving Battery Efficiency Through Electrolyte Circulation | In the push for reliable, affordable, and secure energy storage, researchers are exploring new ways to improve batteries. Aqueous batteries, those that use water-based electrolytes, stand out as a promising alternative to traditional energy... |
| 02.07.2025 | Barr Speaks on AI at Texas Emergency Management Conference | Jonathan Barr, senior systems engineer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), was recently invited to co-present on a panel at the Texas Department of Emergency Management (TDEM) Annual Conference. The panel focused on the relatio... |
| 02.07.2025 | Salmon Summit Introduces Thousands of Students to Research at PNNL | Science is fun and engaging. That hypothesis was validated by the “oohs and ahhs” of thousands of students at Salmon Summit, hosted in late April 2025 by the Benton Conservation District in partnership with Pacific Northwest National Labora... |
| 25.06.2025 | The Lesser-Told Story of Water | When we think of the water on Earth, it’s often easier to focus on the clear boundaries between where it continuously is and where it isn’t: oceans, lakes, and rivers vs. deserts and other dry expanses of land. But what about the spaces in ... |
| 20.06.2025 | DOE's CESER and PNNL Convene State Officials for Inaugural Cybersecurity Summit | The role of states is increasingly important in our cybersecurity defense strategy. Greater collaboration with government, industry, and education are essential to countering cybersecurity threats. With that goal in mind, the Department of ... |
| 20.06.2025 | PermitAI Hosts AI-Focused Workshop for Environmental Permitting | Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming federal permitting practices and making it easier to conduct environmental reviews—and that comes with potential challenges, opportunities, and a wealth of AI-assisted tools. These were the topic... |
| 19.06.2025 | Laura di Vacri Joins the Coordinating Panel for Advanced Detectors | Analytical chemist Laura di Vacri has recently been selected to serve for two years on the Executive Board of the Coordinating Panel for Advanced Detectors (CPAD). Formed in 2012, CPAD brings together scientists to promote, coordinate, and ... |
| 12.06.2025 | New “Doubly Segmented” Ionene Membrane Increases Carbon Dioxide Permeability During Separation | The Science
CO2 separation is a key aspect of natural gas purification, but conventional techniques are also high-emission processes. Membrane-based separation technologies offer a promising alternative to conventional methods like distilla... |
| 23.05.2025 | Identifying the Active Species that Catalyze Low-Temperature Polyolefin Upcycling | The Science
Chloroaluminate ionic liquids can selectively convert discarded polyolefins into gasoline-range alkanes at temperatures below 100 °C. However, questions have been raised about the speciation of chloroaluminate and its role in th... |
| 23.05.2025 | Early Career Researchers Receive High Energy Physics Awards | The Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced funding for research on quantum information science-enabled discoveries in high energy physics. Two projects involving Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) researchers were selected ... |
| 23.05.2025 | VerWey Selected to Moderate Panel at SCSP AI+ Compute & Connectivity Summit | John VerWey, an advisor in the Mission Alignment group at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), was recently selected to lead a panel discussion at the inaugural Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP) AI+ Compute & Connectiv... |
| 16.05.2025 | Projects with PNNL Ties Earn Secretary’s Honor Awards | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) was recognized for its significant contributions to several projects at the fiscal year 2024 Secretary’s Honor Awards Ceremony on January 8, 2025, in Washington, D.C.
The annual Secretary’s Honor... |
| 13.05.2025 | PNNL’s Paiss Guides Development of a Unified Code for Minimizing Battery Hazard and Risk | Matt Paiss, a technical adviser at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), has been appointed the chair of the NFPA 800, Battery Safety Code technical committee under development by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). Fou... |
| 13.05.2025 | Modeling the Future of Airport Security | The number of air travelers is rising each year, which poses capacity challenges for many airports in terms of performing passenger screening and maintaining the resources and space needed to manage potential security risks. To help airport... |
| 12.05.2025 | PNNL Scientist Encourages Student Competitors to Embrace AI at Nationals | Nancy Washton, a Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) chemist by trade and artificial intelligence (AI) scientist by training, shared her current research and thrill for science with hundreds of high school students from across the ... |
| 10.05.2025 | DOE-Funded Grid Storage Launchpad Wins Battery Council International’s 2025 Innovation Award | PNNL’s Grid Storage Launchpad (GSL) has been honored with the 2025 Battery Council International (BCI) Innovation Award.
The award recognizes the GSL’s role as a national resource for accelerating the development, validation, and deployment... |
| 05.05.2025 | How Math Reveals the Bleeding Edge of AI | Mathematicians love the certainty of proofs. This is how they verify that their intuition matches observable truth.
This logical love of proofs is uniquely suited to opening up the black box of artificial intelligence (AI) to scrutiny with ... |
| 05.05.2025 | AI Driving Autonomous Research at PNNL for Discovery | Most of us have seen the chatbots that pop up on many websites, ready to answer our questions and provide around-the-clock, automated customer service.
This illustration of how artificial intelligence can improve quality, efficiency and pro... |
| 05.05.2025 | PNNL’s Sodium Battery Research Seeks to Enhance Affordable Energy Storage Solutions | Over the next decade, global energy demand is expected to continue to climb, driven by population growth, industrial expansion, and the shift toward high performance transportation. This forecast highlights the urgency of advancing energy s... |
| 28.04.2025 | PNNL’s Wendy Shaw Named Associate Lab Director, Physical and Computational Sciences | RICHLAND, Wash.–Chemist Wendy Shaw has been named associate laboratory director of the Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
In her previous role as PCSD’s chief... |
| 28.04.2025 | Tingey Returns to PNNL as Associate Laboratory Director for Operational Systems | RICHLAND, Wash.—Scott Tingey, a senior executive with 31 years of management and operations experience, has been named Associate Laboratory Director for Operational Systems at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory... |
| 25.04.2025 | Chemical Engineer Yong Wang Elected a Member of the National Academy of Engineering | RICHLAND, Wash.—Yong Wang, acting director of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Institute for Integrated Catalysis, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
The organization cited Wang for his advancement of catalyst d... |
| 23.04.2025 | Scientists Speed Up the Groundwork Essential for Quantum Computing | RICHLAND, Wash.—Quantum computers promise to speed calculations dramatically in some key areas such as computational chemistry and high-speed networking. But they’re so different from today’s computers that scientists need to figure out the... |
| 14.04.2025 | Steven Ashby Stepping Aside as Director of PNNL | RICHLAND, Wash.—Dr. Steven Ashby, director of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, today announced his intention to step aside and make way for PNNL’s next visionary leader. This month marks Ashby’s tenth year as director, culminating 41 ... |
| 08.04.2025 | Disturbed Sleep Cycle Propels Cyanobacteria Into Surprising Burst of Productivity | RICHLAND, Wash.—People who have disrupted circadian rhythms suffer all kinds of negative effects, including higher rates of obesity, sleep difficulties and accidents.
But in cyanobacteria—the bacteria also known as blue-green algae—disrupte... |
| 02.04.2025 | Moving to Autonomous Experimentation: Growing Thin Films with Machine Learning | From cell phones to solar panels to quantum computers, thin films are essential to current and emerging technologies. But making functional thin films requires control. During hours-long processes, thin films form atom by atom. Small change... |
| 27.03.2025 | Tariff Tango: Wall Street Dances to the Beat of Uncertainty | In the world of finance, the stock market is a living organism, pulsating with the rhythm of news and speculation. Recently, it has been a dance of hope and caution, with investors eagerly watching the U.S. administration's next moves on ta... |
