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How to prepare your home for summer heat waves

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

From covering windows and planting trees, to upgrading your air conditioning system—PNNL scientists offer tips to keep your home cool in extreme heat

Wind forecast improvement project saves millions for utilities

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Regional wind data from around the U.S. helps improve a national weather forecasting model, which allows utility companies better plan for windy days

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Guiding vaccine development with machine learning

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

The Rapid Assessment of Platform Technologies to Expedite Response project aims to prepare against future pandemics.

Funder: U.S. Department of Defense

Researchers strengthen defenses against common cyberattack

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists have developed a better way to recognize denial-of-service internet attacks, improving detection by 90 percent.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy
Meeting: IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience

PNNL scientist elevates the internship experience

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Chemist Grant Johnson offers tips for mentoring a successful internship and creating opportunities for undergraduate students to publish research.

Designing detectors for DUNE

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

PNNL scientists design a highly sensitive neutrino detector for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.

Journal: Journal of Physics G Nuclear and Particle Physics
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Burning calories for energy in the calorimetry lab

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Research in the Energy Sciences Center explores how heat changes in chemical reactions, paving the way for more efficient fuels and processes.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Establishing ethical nanobiotechnology

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

PNNL’s wide-ranging report maps the current nanobiotechnology landscape, flags potential concerns, and details the need for an organizing body to coordinate currently disparate disciplines.

Journal: Health Security

Adding snow to estimates of spring flooding

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

By adding rain, snow, and rain-on-snow precipitation data to a background model, a new scheme pinpoints local flood risks in order to improve the design of small-scale hydrological infrastructure.

Funder: U.S. Department of Defense

Next-generation flow battery design sets records

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new flow battery design achieves long life and capacity for grid energy storage from renewable fuels.

Journal: Joule
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

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