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How to slow global warming: three widescale efforts could make the difference

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a new paper, researchers point to three major efforts where the biggest climate mitigation gains stand to be realized: ramping up carbon dioxide removal, reigning in non-carbon dioxide emissions and halting deforestation.

Journal: One Earth
Funder: Environmental Protection Agency, National Research Foundation of Korea

Enhanced geothermal, offshore wind energy gain Earthshot™ Support at PNNL

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Two renewable energy approaches—enhanced geothermal systems and floating offshore wind energy—get new focus as Energy Earthshot™ Research Centers at PNNL.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

A new twist on rechargeable battery performance

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Rechargeable battery performance could be improved by a new understanding of how they work at the molecular level. Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory upend what's known about how rechargeable batteries function.

Journal: Nature Energy
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Shh! Quiet cables set to help reveal rare physics events

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Newly developed ultra-low radiation cables reduce background noise for neutrino and dark matter detectors.

Journal: EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

PNNL collaborates with Microsoft, Micron to bring computational chemistry to the masses

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

PNNL is collaborating with Microsoft, Micron and other partners to make computational chemistry broadly available.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Reduced nitrogen oxide emissions from industrial vehicles ahead

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

A new discovery by PNNL researchers has illuminated a previously unknown key mechanism that could inform the development of new, more effective catalysts for abating NOx emissions from combustion-engines burning diesel or low carbon fuel.

Journal: Nature Communications

Researchers create a new window on leading genetic cause of Alzheimer’s

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists have opened a new view into the workings of the brain and central nervous system, detecting a diverse set of important molecules known as lipoproteins. The most common protein on the particles is apolipoprotein E; one form of APOE puts people at higher risk of Alzheimer’s disease.

Journal: Science Advances
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, OHSU School of Medicine

Closing in on the Elusive Neutrino

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Neutrino mass, a crucial piece of many unresolved physics puzzles, may one day be revealed through a novel measurement system that has just proven its mettle: Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscopy (CRES).

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

The future of grid energy storage starts today

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

PNNL’s Grid Storage Launchpad delivers tomorrow’s energy storage solutions today

A brave and daring poem by the IDREAM team

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

DOE Basic Energy Sciences 2023 “Poetry of Science Art Contest” aims to educate and inspire; voting for the People’s Choice Award closes September 15.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

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