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Team collaborates on assembling and testing “rock star” system 4,100 feet underground A team of scientists has assembled a first-of-its-kind system to help them understand…
Soil is teeming with viruses. Credit: Stephanie King | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory PNNL scientists discover new soil viruses The unsung hero of our lives…
Waste carbon from farms, sewage and other sources can be processed into high-grade bio-based fuels more easily with a new PNNL-developed flow cell. In this…
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory scientists have uncovered new properties in a semiconductor material using a powerful, unconventional technique. Credit: Quardia, Shutterstock.com Discovery reveals the role…
Scientists estimate that there are hundreds of millions of possible chemical variants, or analogs, of fentanyl. PNNL scientists are tracking measurements of the forms already…
Islands of inactive lithium creep like worms to reconnect with their electrodes, restoring a battery’s capacity and lifespan. Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC…
Cryo-EM snapshots of the solid-electrolyte interphase, or SEI, reveal its natural swollen state and offer a new approach to lithium-metal battery design. Lithium metal batteries…
New research followed proteins as they rotated on a mineral surface, identifying unexpected motion. Credit: Illustration by Stephanie King | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Better…
Snapshot of the simulated landfall of an atmospheric river along the west coast of North America on February 11, 2020. Grey tones depict water vapor.…
PNNL chemical engineer Jian Liu observes laboratory equipment used to extract rare earth elements from various water sources. This magnetic separation loop system works in…
A new qubit platform: Electrons from a heated light filament (top) land on solid neon (red block), where a single electron (represented as a wave…
As electrons accelerated by Alfvén waves stream along the Earth’s magnetic field (yellow drops), they collide with oxygen atoms (white dots) and molecules of oxygen…
Light microscope images of E. coli cells in transmitted light (left) and reflected light that picks up the red fluorescence of a dye staining the…
An image of a rock called “Ben Hee,” taken with the ChemCam instrument. It shows bedrock filled with dark nodules, which usually form in soft…
A new membrane material, pictured here, could make purification of gases significantly more efficient, potentially helping to reduce carbon emissions. Credit: Courtesy of the researchers…
Abstract artist’s concept of neutrino particles. CUORE Team Places New Limits on the Bizarre Behavior of Neutrinos Physicists are closing in on the true nature…
Credit: Graphics by Carly Wilkins, Energy Department What if you could travel from New York to Los Angeles in just under seven hours without boarding…
Most precise ever measurement of W boson mass to be in tension with the Standard Model. After 10 years of careful analysis and scrutiny, scientists…
Credit: Image by Ellen Weiss/Argonne National Laboratory Magnetic interactions could point to quantum devices. From MRI machines to computer hard disk storage, magnetism has played…