Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will receive more than $6.8 million total over three years to advance the production of renewable power from the movement of oceans and rivers. PNNL will also lead a study looking at the environmental impacts of hydrokinetic and marine energy, which includes tidal and wave power.
The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has established a Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship Program and is accepting applicants for fall 2009 positions.
PNNL's Smart Charger Controller simplifies electric vehicle recharging, protects the grid and saves consumers money; device automatically activates the vehicle's battery to recharge at times of least stress on the grid.
Smoldering ponderosa pine fires contain alkaloids.
Energy experts will create a nationwide building energy code program for China.
Genome of diurnal photosynthesizing bacteria called Cyanothece 51142 contains linear chromosome.
Multithreaded Cray XMT supercomputer seeks advanced software for data-intensive computing.
A team of scientists from the Battelle Memorial Institute and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory won a regional award from the American Chemical Society for an environmentally friendly deicer.
PNNL researchers put a little pressure into proteomics analyses to squeeze a four-hour step into a minute.
Key to Northwest biofuels may include waste among biomass resources.
PNNL, EMSL research shows mineral surfaces linked by electrons traveling through hematite, iron oxide bulk.
To have meaningful impact on managing carbon emissions, we need to think about the problem globally. Integrating science and public policy with the needs of consumers and the global economy is critical if we have any chance of reducing the effects of carbon on the climate, say scientists at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
A more sensitive, more selective and easily deployable radiation detection material is necessary to meet complex 21st century challenges. In the AAAS symposium "Radiation Detectors for Global Security: The Need for Science-Driven Discovery," researchers addressed some of the technical challenges and gaps and proposed a science-driven approach to uncovering novel materials that will benefit national security and medicine.
PNNL uses gasification technology to enhance understanding of clean coal. "Coal gasification offers one of the most versatile and clean ways to convert coal into electricity, hydrogen and other valuable energy products," said George Muntean, staff scientist at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, during his presentation at the AAAS symposium entitled "Coal Gasification, Myths, Challenges and Opportunities."
Environmental electrons stimulate acid-base reaction between ammonia and hydrogen chloride, say DOE PNNL chemists.
PNNL has developed a new rapid, portable and inexpensive detection system to identify exposures in children and workers to toxic lead and other dangerous heavy metals in blood, urine or saliva samples.
PNNL's new center to explain biological response due to stressors posed by the environment and our natural makeup.
PNNL civil infrastructure experts are available to reporters to discuss the development and deployment of sensor technology for evaluating material degradation associated with failure in steel, concrete, composite and other structures.
A three-year project aimed at improving science education in 14 school districts representing more than 140,000 students will kick off at a meeting in August. Of the 14 school districts, 13 are from Washington and one is from Alaska.
The Allen Brain Atlas, a genome-wide map of the mouse brain on the Internet, has been hailed as "Google of the brain." The atlas now has a companion of the brain's working molecules, a sort of pop-up book of the proteins, or proteome map, that those genes express.
Former cold warriors collaborate to create and market a miniature hydrogen gas sensor with improved reliability and response time. Such a device will provide added safety, detection capability and efficiency to a variety of applications industry-wide.
If all the cars and light trucks in the nation switched from oil to electrons, idle capacity in the existing electric power system could generate most of the electricity consumed by plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. A new study for the Department of Energy finds that "off-peak" electricity production and transmission capacity could fuel 84 percent of the country's 220 million vehicles if they were plug-in hybrid electrics.
Scientists in the Pacific Northwest have found that inactive enzymes entombed in tiny honeycomb-shaped holes in silica can spring to life. The finding points the way for exploiting these enzyme traps in food processing, decontamination, biosensor design and any other pursuit that requires controlling catalysts and sustaining their activity.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory study can lead to improved disease detection, vaccines and treatments.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory scientists first to measure electrical charge shuttled by proteins removed from living cells.
The most detailed inventory yet of Salmonella proteins teases out how bacteria invade immune cells while evading detection"”and presents a promising target for new drugs, vaccines and rapid diagnostics
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been recognized with five 2006 R&D 100 awards for a new cancer treatment method, a process that reduces the rate of post-surgical infection, and technologies that have reduced energy use, and led to improvements in the health and materials fields.
A new ultrasonic technology could tell ice cream manufacturers and other food processors if foreign objects have fallen into their tasty product before customers find them at the bottom of their cones or on their dinner plates.
Power grid operators now have the ability to train like pilots, with simulators providing faulty readings designed to throw them off. Such misleading data and resulting loss of "situational awareness" was identified as a major cause of the August 2003 blackout "“ which cost the country between $4 billion and $10 billion.
Most detailed forecast to date shows sharp snowpack decline between now and year 2100; New Zealand, Latin America, Western U.S., European ranges hardest hit.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory scientists have used electrostatic attraction to layer reactive biological molecules lasagna-like around spaghetti-like carbon nanotubes.
Scientists have uncovered a class of gold atom clusters that are the first known metallic hollow equivalents of the famous hollow carbon fullerenes known as buckyballs.
Extraterrestrial ice as a source for oxygen has presented the tantalizing possibility of complex life elsewhere in our solar system. But how hydrogen peroxide emerges from ice to become life-sustaining oxygen has been unclear...until now.
With an eye on disembodied cells and virtual organs, researchers attempt to track biological changes as they occur.
A leading molecular sciences research facility in the Pacific Northwest is seeing early promise from its two scientific "grand challenges" that have been investigating enigmas in microbiology and biogeochemistry.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been recognized for transferring technologies that treat and cure cancer, uniquely analyze massive sets of data, neutralize toxic chemicals from the environment and increase surgical implant success rates.
Benoit Mandelbrot takes on new challenges in advanced mathematics for computational science.
In the clouds above Darwin, Australia, pilots guided by a team of international climate scientists are now one week into a series of carefully orchestrated flights to obtain key in situ data about tropical clouds.
A research team has found that while cloud cover in China has been decreasing for the past 50 years, cloud-free days do not mean sunshine. Smog is to blame.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory announced today the launch of the Pacific Northwest GridWiseTM Demonstration Projects, a regional initiative to test and speed adoption of new smart grid technologies that can make the power grid more resilient and efficient.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory group discovers a paradox: hydrophobic H2O.
By mid-century, air quality throughout the Western United States will deteriorate, according to a new EPA-funded computer simulation by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
By combining an electrically charged gas with a specialized catalyst, researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have successfully reduced harmful oxides of nitrogen in a diesel engine by half.
Quarterly news highlights from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington state.
A new polymer-based material with unique gelling properties useful in medical applications ranging from targeted cancer treatment to tissue engineering has been developed by researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Together, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Maryland are creating a Joint Global Change Research Institute in College Park that will investigate the scientific, social and economic implications of climate change, both nationally and globally.
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have been recognized by the Federal Laboratory Consortium for their efforts in the commercialization of important laboratory-developed technologies.
1- System is "black box" for power grid; 2- Biotechnology cleans up chlorinated solvents Purifier detects pathogens at "point-of-use"; 3- Stabilizing plutonium less expensively
A wireless communication technology capable of tracking items ranging from honeybees to soldiers will be the foundation of a new company. The startup company, called Wave ID, will license proprietary technology developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and will be financed partially by Battelle, which operates the laboratory for the Department of Energy.
Creating a technology that can quickly and easily detect landmines can be as daunting a challenge as removing the deadly weapons. But a promising detector being built at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory promises to do just that.
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