Smelling is Believing

PNNL vapor detection technology quickly and accurately identifies explosives, deadly chemicals, and illicit drugs
27-Aug-2019 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

PNNL Publishes Distributed Wind Energy Report

Wind energy costs at all-time lows, as wind turbines grow larger
26-Aug-2019 1:40 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Two PNNL Researchers Receive Presidential Early Career Award

Two Chief Engineers at PNNL given Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
6-Aug-2019 3:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Designer proteins form wires and lattices on mineral surface

This research is a fundamental discovery of how to engineer proteins onto non-biological surfaces. Artificial proteins engineered from scratch have been assembled into nanorod arrays, designer filaments and honeycomb lattices on the surface of mica,...
6-Jul-2019 8:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Caltech’s Castañeda Named Director of Human Resources at PNNL

April Castañeda, a senior executive with 20 years of experience leading human resources programs at Caltech and NASA’s Jet propulsion Laboratory, has been named director of Human Resources at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
8-Jul-2019 2:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Scientists show how one cause of weak enamel unfolds on the molecular level

Scientists have shown how a tiny flaw in a protein results in damaged enamel that is prone to decay in people with a condition known as amelogenesis imperfecta. Such patients don’t develop enamel correctly because of a single amino acid defect in...
25-Jun-2019 1:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

A New Manufacturing Process for Aluminum Alloys

Using a novel Solid Phase Processing approach, a research team at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory eliminated several steps that are required during conventional extrusion processing of aluminum alloy powders, while also achieving a significant...
18-Jun-2019 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

How Cryptocurrency Discussions Spread

PNNL's Dr. Svitlana Volkova and her the team analyzed three years worth of discussions on Reddit from January 2015 to January 2018 measuring the speed and scale of discussion spread related to Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Monero cryptocurrencies.
10-Jun-2019 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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