News By Location

News from WA

Select a state to view local articles and features

Was that explosion chemical or nuclear?

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

New PNNL research makes it easier to differentiate between chemical and nuclear explosions.

Journal: Pure and Applied Geophysics
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Defense

Big data analysis powers the fight against Alzheimer’s

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research findings published in Science Advances (November 2022), help explain the progression of Alzheimer-related dementia in each patient. The findings outline a biological classification system that predicts disease severity.

Journal: Science Advances

Fertilizing the ocean to store carbon dioxide

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Iron-based fertilizer may stimulate plankton to pull carbon dioxide from the ocean, driving a carbon-negative process.

Journal: Nature Nanotechnology
Funder: European Research Council

Tracking explosions with toughened-up tracers

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

PNNL researchers created rugged, adaptable, mass-manufacturable luminescent particle tracers for use in harsh environments.

Journal: MRS Communications
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Tiniest ever ancient seawater pockets revealed

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Ancient seawater pockets offer a new source of clues to climate change in vanished oceans and our own.

Journal: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Funder: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

The world will probably warm beyond the 1.5-degree limit. But peak warming can be curbed

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The world's current climate pledges are insufficient to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius. We will overshoot. In new research, PNNL scientists chart several potential courses in which the overshoot period is shortened, in some cases by decades.

Journal: Nature Climate Change
Funder: Environmental Protection Agency

First-generation students in STEM career pathways

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Abigail Gutierrez Deniz is a first-generation, Latina student working to pursue her goal of working in cybersecurity.

Designing next-generation metals, one atom at a time

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Direct visualization of metal atoms during shear deformation has broad applications from battery design to vehicle lightweighting.

Journal: Scripta Materialia
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Detecting nuclear threats with artificial reasoning

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

PNNL researchers use machine learning and data analytics to assist with detection of nuclear proliferation and nuclear material trafficking.

Mentoring the next generation STEM workforce

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Mentoring interns creates opportunities to inspire the future, diverse workforce with pathways into STEM careers.

13
14
15
16
17