Seaweed-Fueled Cars? Maybe One Day, with Help of New Tech

New technologies are being developed to grow seaweed in the open ocean so it can be converted into biofuel with support from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy, also known as ARPA-E.
20-Sep-2017 1:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Let There Be (Connected) Light

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Connected Lighting Test Bed is helping advance smart and energy-efficient connected lighting systems.
18-Sep-2017 1:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

New Insights Into Nanocrystal Growth in Liquid

PNNL researchers have measured the forces that cause certain crystals to assemble, revealing competing factors that researchers might be able to control. The work has a variety of implications in both discovery and applied science. In addition to...
14-Sep-2017 4:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Cheatham to Lead Technology Deployment and Outreach at PNNL

New director will increase impact of PNNL's science and technology
31-Aug-2017 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Radiological Crimes Investigation

The results of the fifth and latest Collaborative Materials Exercise of the Nuclear Forensics International Technical Working Group, a global network of nuclear forensics experts, will be discussed at the American Chemical Society’s national...
23-Aug-2017 4:55 PM EDT Add to Favorites

ShAPEing the Future of Magnesium Car Parts

Magnesium — the lightest of all structural metals — has a lot going for it in the quest to make ever lighter cars and trucks that go farther on a tank of fuel or battery charge.Magnesium is 75 percent lighter than steel, 33 percent lighter than...
22-Aug-2017 1:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

PNNL Scientist Jiwen Fan Receives DOE Early Career Research Award

Jiwen Fan of the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been selected to receive a 2017 Early Career Research Program award from the U.S. Department of Energy. Fan will use the award to study severe thunderstorms in the...
14-Aug-2017 9:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Are Your Tweets Feeling Well?

Study finds opinion and emotion in tweets change when you get sick, a method public health workers could use to track health trends.
14-Aug-2017 8:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites