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PNNL is a DOE Office of Science laboratory that solves complex problems in energy, national security, the environment and life sciences by advancing the understanding of physics, chemistry, biology and computation. PNNL employs 4000, has a $650 million annual budget, and has been managed by Ohio-based Battelle since the lab's inception in 1965. |
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Touch the tines of a tuning fork and it goes silent. Scientists have faced a similar problem trying to harness the strength and conductivity of carbon nanotubes, regarded as material of choice for the next generation of everything from biosensors to pollution-trapping sponges. |
27 August 2006 |
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Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are taking a new approach to 'filling up' a fuel cell car with a nanoscale solid, hydrogen storage material. Their discovery could hasten a day when our vehicles will run on hydrogen-powered, environmentally friendly fuel cells instead of gasoline engines. |
26 August 2006 |
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Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are developing a system to rapidly produce hydrogen from gasoline in your car. 'This brings fuel cell-powered cars one step closer to the mass market,' said Larry Pederson, project leader at PNNL. Researchers will present their developments at the American Institute for Chemical Engineers spring meeting in New Orleans. |
26 August 2006 |
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America got a wake-up call when the East Coast suffered a wide-spread power outage that left millions without electricity. Before the lights came back on, people began trying to determine who should take the blame. Regardless of the cause, the fact that the outage occurred and spread so quickly revealed a much larger problem. Our energy system lacks the flexibility and responsiveness it needs. |
26 August 2006 |
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Whether you get your power from its dams, water your crops from its irrigation systems, fish for salmon from its banks, or buy products that were shipped through its ports, you are participating in one of the complex environmental issues that affect the Columbia River Basin. At the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, our scientists and engineers are driving science to solutions to sustain the Columbia as a vital regional resource and help balance environmental quality with competing needs. |
25 August 2006 |
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A marathon of testing is under way at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to ensure that personal radiation detection equipment purchased with Department of Homeland Security funds meets new standards for identifying potential threats. |
25 August 2006 |
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The Iowa Corn Promotion Board, ICPB, has signed its first commercial license with Battelle to produce a new plastic additive made from corn that offers a variety of commercial advantages. Battelle operates the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory based in Richland, Wash., where the research will occur. |
25 August 2006 |
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A new research effort is addressing 21st century energy needs of the U.S. Navy in a thoroughly modern way, on the computer. The research to develop new computational capabilities ultimately will lead to more efficient electric power for ships and tougher, lighter-weight materials. It will also help the Navy use energy resources more efficiently. |
24 August 2006 |
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Our knees may become stiff when injured, but banged up DNA becomes flexible, suggests the most detailed computer model of damaged DNA to date. Further, this flexibility explains how the body's enzymes recognize and fix damaged DNA, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Maciej Haranczyk reported today at the American Chemical Society national meeting. |
24 August 2006 |
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Transformation will mean profound changes in numerous ways, including the way the military develops strategy and the way it's organized. Preparing for the future will require the military to adopt innovative approaches to how it operates, to think differently and creatively. |
24 August 2006 |
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A year ago, the Tri-Cities economy was booming, swelled by a temporary influx of jobs and spending to clean up the Hanford site and build the vitrification plant. Now, forecasts show that Hanford funded-growth has reached its peak and is starting its inevitable downward slide as cleanup winds down. |
23 August 2006 |
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Proteins pass messages to other proteins much like fly-fishermen flicker their lines against water, or so a current leading theory holds. The repeated weak slapping of protein surfaces against one-another is the critical first step in a chain of events that rule all subsequent cellular behavior. |
23 August 2006 |
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The scientific analysis of biological evidence isn't just determining what something is, it's also learning how and where it was developed. |
23 August 2006 |
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Images of deep space exploration in old sci-fi movies will take one giant leap toward reality as Battelle scientists manipulate microtechnology to produce rocket propellant in space and breathing oxygen for interplanetary travel, thanks to new funding from NASA. |
22 August 2006 |
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This story is unabashedly all spin. What's the angle? Why, magic. Its subject, a mouse in a form-fitted Plexiglas tube, performs the honors, spinning like an old phonograph record, at a leisurely one to three revolutions a second. The mouse chamber is tilted just so inside a magnetic field being pelted with radio waves. The tiny rodent-adventurer and her cohorts are put under and are no worse for the wear. |
22 August 2006 |
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As the dog days of summer approach, the electrical grid feels the heat, but a new integrated data network may help the aging transmission system weather the season without another massive blackout like the one experienced over much of the Eastern United States and Canada last August. |
22 August 2006 |
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Rats subjected to extreme electromagnetic fields produce dangerous levels of the toxic gas ozone, according to a new study out of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory that is sure to reenergize the decade-dormant debate about safety around power lines and household appliances. |
21 August 2006 |
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An electron microscope captures the weave structure of the long crystal strands that give enamel its strength. Bottom: A model based on nuclear magnetic resonance data derived at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory shows how an active portion of the enamel-building protein, an amelogenin called LRAP, interacts with the crystal hydroxyapatite, or HAP, used by the body to engineer both bone and enamel. |
21 August 2006 |
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The W.R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will embark on two 'grand challenges', innovative, multidisciplinary projects, to explore scientific enigmas in microbiology and biogeochemistry. |
21 August 2006 |
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Two National Institutes of Health grants, totaling nearly $3 million, aim to alleviate painful conditions that affect millions of Americans. For cystic fibrosis patients, the research will be used to fight against infections caused by an aggressive bacterium called Pseudomonas aeruginosa that can wreak havoc in respiratory systems. For millions of tumor sufferers, the work will lead to understanding what goes wrong in the growth and development of cells. |
21 August 2006 |
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Materials scientists at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a chemical process that adds a promising new dimension to the search for advanced catalyst technologies, as well as to cutting tools, abrasives and coatings. |
20 August 2006 |
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Scientists have discovered a record number of proteins for one of the largest and most complex viruses, the highly infectious and stealthy human cytomegalovirus, a team from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Oregon Health & Science University reports in the October Journal of Virology. |
20 August 2006 |
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Personal protective suits may protect soldiers from chemical and biological weapons, yet extreme heat inside that gear poses a different but equal threat. Without portable cooling technology to ward off heat exhaustion and heat stroke, suits meant to save lives can incapacitate soldiers in just minutes. |
20 August 2006 |
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While efficient, affordable electricity serves as a cornerstone of American prosperity, the nation's electric system suffers from aging infrastructure, security vulnerabilities and operating instabilities and inefficiencies. Ratepayers also must foot the bill for costly mortgages on large capital assets sized to meet peak demands that occur only a few hours per year. |
19 August 2006 |
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The study suggests why the bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans is able to survive radiation that would kill most other life instantly: It contains a high level of the metal manganese where you would find iron in other organisms, including human beings. |
19 August 2006 |
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It turns out that the most popular form of residential lighting is generally the most inefficient. So inefficient, in fact, that new building codes in California will effectively limit new installation of incandescent recessed fixtures, commonly referred to as 'can' lights or 'downlights'. |
19 August 2006 |
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Air Force personnel will soon know within minutes if they or their equipment are contaminated with a biological agent, thanks to a new technology developed by the Air Force and a national laboratory. Personnel will use the biosensor system to collect and isolate samples, detect and identify agents, and assess the seriousness of the threat. |
18 August 2006 |
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Can information technology and smart building controls reduce the need to build expensive new electricity transmission lines? Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory think they might. In a demonstration with the Bonneville Power Administration, PNNL is exploring the impacts of reducing electrical demand and on-site energy production at several buildings in Richland, where PNNL performs research for the federal government. |
18 August 2006 |
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Researchers have identified an astounding 4,000 distinctive proteins in human blood plasma, a critical step toward cataloging biological markers for early diagnosis of cancer and other diseases. |
18 August 2006 |
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Following the National Academy of Sciences criticism of the Bush administration's plans for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles last week, taxpayers are left wondering how realistic is the vision for a hydrogen economy, what kinds of approaches are scientists and engineers taking and just what are the technical hurdles involved. |
17 August 2006 |
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A new fiber optic network that connects Richland to Seattle will allow Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to increase the amount of data the research facility can exchange with the U.S. and international science communities by as much as 300 times current rates. The new high-speed connection and increased bandwidth will position the lab for major new research programs in homeland and cyber security, information visualization, and human and environmental health. |
17 August 2006 |
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Fishing for a way to assess mixing behavior in treatment tanks for radioactive waste, ecologists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory came up with an innovative use of radio frequency technology previously used to track migrating fish. |
17 August 2006 |
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'Leave No Trace' is a popular ethic for outdoor recreationists who advocate a natural landscape. Now it is also applicable to groundwater sampling collection sites along the Columbia River in southeastern Washington State. |
16 August 2006 |
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The field of biology is undergoing a revolution, transformed by sophisticated technologies from a qualitative, descriptive science to one that's quantitative and predictive. These technologies are producing a wealth of biological data that, once collected, analyzed and interpreted holistically, will form the basis for applications ranging from the development of cancer treatments to the creation of novel bioremediation technologies that will help clean up the worst Superfund sites. |
16 August 2006 |
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Scientists at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a novel material that can remove mercury and other toxic substances from coalburning power-plant waste water. |
16 August 2006 |
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In a novel approach to stalling global warming while reinvigorating nutrient-depleted farmland, chemists have found they can promote soil's natural ability to soak up greenhouse-gas carbon dioxide from the surrounding air. |
15 August 2006 |
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What is considered perhaps the northwest's most valuable natural resource will be the primary focus for hundreds of environmental science professionals as they convene for the Fourth Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry World Congress conference in Portland this November. |
15 August 2006 |
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The textbooks say that water readily comes together with other water, open arms of hydrogen clasping oxygen attached to other OH molecules. This is the very definition of “wetness.” But scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have observed a first: a single layer of water, ice grown on a platinum wafer, that gives the cold shoulder to subsequent layers of ice that come into contact with it. |
15 August 2006 |
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In a bid to facilitate collaboration among other biomolecular researchers, the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has become the first institution outside the United Kingdom to join the Biological Simulation Grid Consortium of Great Britain. |
14 August 2006 |
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'Calcite-containing dust particles blow into the air and encounter gaseous nitric acid in polluted air from factories to form an entirely new particle of calcium nitrate,' said Alexander Laskin, a senior research scientist at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington. |
14 August 2006 |
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Enzymes, the workhorses of chemical reactions in cells, lead short and brutal lives. They cleave and assemble proteins and metabolize compounds for a few hours, and then they are spent. |
14 August 2006 |
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The chairman of the National Hydrogen Association and former head of a successful fuel cell company is the new lead for energy science and technology at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. |
13 August 2006 |
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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has selected Flad & Associates, a national architectural and engineering firm based in Madison, Wis., to design a new federal laboratory and office building that will partially replace critical capabilities being shutdown as a result of the federal government’s cleanup activities at the nearby Hanford Site. |
13 August 2006 |
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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has selected CUH2A, an architecture engineering and planning firm headquartered in Princeton, N.J., to develop conceptual designs for new facilities that will replace laboratory and office space PNNL currently uses in the '300 Area' of the nearby Hanford Site. |
12 August 2006 |
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China has darkened over the past half-century. Where has all the sunshine gone? The usual suspect, at least to a climatologist, would be cloud cover. But in the most comprehensive study to date of overcast versus cloud-free days in China, a team led by the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, reporting in the current advance online issue of Geophysical Research Letters, has found that cloud cover has been decreasing for the past 50 years. |
11 August 2006 |
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There is growing consensus among scientists, regulators, politicians, industry and the public that we need to know more about the possible harmful or adverse effects of nanoparticles on human health. |
10 August 2006 |
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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory today launched an $8 million Institute for Interfacial Catalysis to explore the fundamental chemical changes on surfaces where catalytic reactions take place. The Department of Energy lab also announced the appointment of University of Texas at Austin chemist John M. 'Mike' White as the institute's director. |
10 August 2006 |
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During the past two years, five Port Townsend High School students have invested more than 500 hours working intently with a local entrepreneur to develop, design and construct a highly specialized research vessel capable of diving to the depths of Puget Sound to conduct important marine research. |
09 August 2006 |
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The W.R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a Department of Energy-sponsored national scientific user facility, is seeing early promise from its two scientific “grand challenges” that have been investigating enigmas in microbiology and biogeochemistry. |
09 August 2006 |
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Scientists have uncovered a class of gold atom clusters that are the first known metallic hollow equivalents of the famous hollow carbon fullerenes known as buckyballs. The evidence for what their discoverers call “hollow golden cages” appeared today in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. |
08 August 2006 |
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Seventeen graduate students will spend the next year helping the U.S. government prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. The program kicks off this summer as they train for internships in the field of nuclear nonproliferation. |
08 August 2006 |
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Yongsoon Shin and colleagues at the Department of Energy lab have converted wood to mineral, achieving in days what it takes nature millions of years to do in such places as the Gingko Petrified Forest, an hour up the Columbia River. There, trees likely felled in a cataclysmic eruption and, buried without oxygen beneath lava, leached out their woody compounds and sponged up the soil's minerals over the eons. |
07 August 2006 |
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The W.R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a Department of Energy-sponsored national scientific user facility, is seeing early promise from its two scientific “grand challenges” that have been investigating enigmas in microbiology and biogeochemistry. |
07 August 2006 |
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Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a new ceramic-based coating for steel and superalloys that prevents corrosion, oxidation, carburization and sulfidation that commonly occur in gas, liquid, steam and other hostile environments. |
06 August 2006 |
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Balloon-borne sounding system. Check. Micropulse lidar. Check. Infrared thermometer. Check. Eddy correlation flux measurement system. Eddy correlation flux measurement system?! Check already. |
06 August 2006 |
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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers are using the universe's most common form of matter, plasma, in a new filtration system that may one day save the lives of people seeking shelter from chemical or biological attacks. |
05 August 2006 |
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Some may be surprised to learn that bleach-blondes and the enabler of life elsewhere in our solar system have something in common. And, no, it’s not intelligence. It is, in fact, hydrogen peroxide. |
05 August 2006 |
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A material designed to capture and remove mercury and other toxic substances from industrial waste streams is now available for commercial use. Battelle has licensed the SAMMS technology developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to Steward Environmental Solutions of Chattanooga, Tenn. Battelle operates the laboratory for the Department of Energy and transfers lab-developed technologies to the marketplace through licenses and other means. |
04 August 2006 |
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Genomics, the study of all the genetic sequences in living organisms, has leaned heavily on the blueprint metaphor. A large part of the blueprint, unfortunately, has been unintelligible, with no good way to distinguish a bathroom from a boardroom, to link genomic features to cell function. |
04 August 2006 |
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Global warming conversations have shifted from whether climate is changing to how we will deal with the inevitable consequences. And the price you pay will depend on where you live and how well you prepare, suggests one of the most detailed studies to date on global warming and its likely effect on human activity. |
03 August 2006 |
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The Idaho Bureau of Land Management and several weed control groups are fighting back with new software that uses NASA satellite imagery and complex computer programs to show the location and growth of this noxious plant that has invaded the arid West from desert lowlands to high mountains. |
03 August 2006 |
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Power grid operators now have the ability to train like pilots, with simulators providing faulty readings designed to throw them off. Such misleading data and resulting loss of “situational awareness” was identified as a major cause of the blackout, which cost the country between $4 billion and $10 billion. Better training to identify and resolve bad data was one recommendation in the final report on the blackout. |
02 August 2006 |
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Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a new method for powder injection molding of titanium and similar materials to form components for advanced engineering applications. |
02 August 2006 |
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Gravity, always an attractive candidate to explain how celestial matter pulls together, was no match for stellar winds. The dust needed help coming together fast, in kilometer-wide protoplanets, in the first few million years after a star was born, or the stellar wind would blow it all away. |
01 August 2006 |
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Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, Lou Gehrig’s disease and other brain disorders are among a growing list of maladies attributed to oxidative stress, the cell damage caused during metabolism when the oxygen in the body assumes ever more chemically reactive forms. |
01 August 2006 |
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Scanning electron microscopic images of how different bacteria can be made to sprout nanowires to pass electrons. The scanning tunneling microscopic images at right of individual nanowires confirm that they are conducting electricity. (A, B: a strain of the photosynthetic Synechocystis; and C, D: a fermenting strain, Pelotomaculum thermopropionicum). |
31 July 2006 |
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Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory made a key advance in developing a fully automated system that fights corrosion and wear and tear in even the hardest-to-reach places. |
31 July 2006 |
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A new research effort is addressing 21st century energy needs of the US Navy in a thoroughly modern way – on the computer. The research to develop new computational capabilities ultimately will lead to more efficient electric power for ships and tougher, lighter-weight materials. It will also help the Navy use energy resources more efficiently. |
29 March 2005 |
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Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are taking a new approach to 'filling up' a fuel cell car with a nanoscale solid, hydrogen storage material. Their discovery could hasten a day when our vehicles will run on hydrogen-powered, environmentally friendly fuel cells instead of gasoline engines. |
21 March 2005 |
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PNNL-led group controls loading of functional 'anchor' molecules on carbon nanotubes without encumbering tubes' strength, conductivity |
17 March 2005 |
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Following the National Academy of Sciences criticism of the Bush administration's plans for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, US taxpayers were left wondering how realistic is the vision for a hydrogen economy, what kinds of approaches are scientists and engineers taking and just what are the technical hurdles involved. |
14 February 2004 |
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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Marine Sciences Laboratory in Sequim, Wash., has turned to the garbage dump to power its operations. All of the research facility's electrical energy needs now are met by electricity generated by a plant that uses methane gas from a regional sanitary waste landfill, or green power. |
19 December 2003 |
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Epidermal growth factor and its receptor system, or EGFR, is well-trodden territory in molecular biology. And it's no wonder. This is one critical community of proteins, responsible for everything from the development of insect eyes and the mouse brain to human heart and skin. When EGFR breaks down, cancer and other diseases crop up. |
17 December 2003 |
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The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and NASA's Glenn Research Center have agreed to collaborate in solving one of the toughest technical challenges to the development of advanced solid oxide fuel cells. The two research organizations have signed a Space Act Agreement to team in the development of sealing technologies for the stacks of solid oxide fuel cells. |
10 December 2003 |
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The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's supercomputer has been ranked No. 5 on the top 500 list of the fastest computers in the world that was released yesterday. The HP system installed at PNNL was designed specifically for complex computational environmental and biological sciences. |
17 November 2003 |
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Geologists have uncovered a scene in the Pasco Basin west of the Columbia River that shows how boulders piggybacked icebergs from what is now Montana and came to rest at elevations as high as 1,200 feet. |
03 November 2003 |
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Home testing of saliva to measure personal hormone levels is gaining popularity, with dozens of companies offering do-it-yourself, mail-in test kits. Battelle scientists at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory envision a day when it may be nearly as easy to detect chemical exposure or even nerve gas poisoning, simply by analyzing a victim’s saliva. And the results would be almost immediate. |
22 October 2003 |
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Battelle today announced that it has joined a coalition of six other corporations in forming the GridWise Alliance, a collaboration that will realize the vision of an electric power grid that leverages information technology to improve power generation, distribution and consumption. Battelle will provide scientific and technological expertise through the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, which it operates for DOE. |
09 October 2003 |
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The Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is now home to the United States’ fastest operational unclassified supercomputer. The laboratory’s 11.8 teraflops industry-standard HP Integrity system came to full operating power this week, marking the next advance in high-performance computing designed to enable new insights in the environmental and molecular sciences, including chemistry, biology, climate and subsurface chemistry. |
26 August 2003 |
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The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is a leader in power grid reliability, from impacts of aging infrastructure, deregulation and vulnerabilities to terrorism to envisioning a power grid of the future using technological advancements. PNNL experts are supporting DOE and other industry stakeholders to provide insight to the factors that play a role in large-scale outages such as those that occurred on the East Coast on Aug. 14, and how susceptibility to such events can be minimized with new technology and tighter cooperation. |
15 August 2003 |
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Research has found that thousands of miles of essential juvenile salmon habitat are blocked by tens of thousands of culverts that lay beneath Pacific Northwest roadways. Many of these culverts, that for years have successfully channeled water under roadbeds, are acting as barriers to young salmon preventing them the upstream passage required for growth and development. |
11 August 2003 |
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A new method of extracting and analyzing fluid from a woman’s breast may provide a more accurate, less expensive and noninvasive way to determine a patient’s risk for breast cancer or to diagnose the disease in its early stages. |
08 July 2003 |
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While a breeze over the ocean may cool beach goers in the summertime, a new scientific study has revealed that tiny wind-blown sea salt particles drifting into the atmosphere participate in a chemical reaction that may have impacts on climate and acid rain. |
03 July 2003 |
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After almost 50 years of nuclear materials production at the 586-square-mile Hanford Site in southeastern Washington, there are more than 700 waste sites with the potential to release contaminants to the soil and groundwater. These sites vary significantly in their inventories of radioactive and chemical contaminants and potential for contaminants to migrate through the soil to the groundwater and the Columbia River. Understanding which waste sites have the most significant impact and the cumulative effect of all the waste sites is important as decision makers investigate options for cleanup and closure of Hanford. |
19 May 2003 |
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On the battlefield, having a reliable source of power to operate the many advanced electronic devices a soldier carries is essential. But today’s heavy and cumbersome batteries fall short in satisfying the military’s needs. In search of both a lightweight and reliable alternative, the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has developed the smallest power system yet, all wrapped up in a micro-sized package. |
03 April 2003 |
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A team of experimental and theoretical researchers from Washington State University and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have observed that gold displays unexpected properties when it exists in extremely small particles. The current issue of Science magazine carries an article describing their research. |
02 February 2003 |
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Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have extracted part of the human immune system and reconstituted it in brewer's yeast in a fashion that enables powerful machines to quickly identify new antibodies. The advance could have major repercussions for fundamental biological science as well as industries that use antibodies for sensors, biodetectors, diagnostic tools and therapeutic agents. |
20 January 2003 |
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In a significant scientific advance, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have identified or confirmed 490 proteins in human blood serum, nearly doubling the number of known serum proteins, according to a paper accepted for publication in the December issue of Molecular and Cellular Proteomics. |
18 December 2002 |
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The National Corn Growers Association, Archer Daniels Midland and the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will continue collaborating to explore new markets for corn with a $2.4 million research grant from DOE. The award enables NCGA, ADM and PNNL to extend their research on corn fiber utilization by two and a half years. The highly skilled project team is multidisciplinary, consisting of business managers, engineers, chemists and biochemists from ADM, NCGA and PNNL. |
09 December 2002 |
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Oregon State University and the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory today agreed to form a research and educational center, called the Microproducts Breakthrough Institute, to develop and help market advances in the emerging and highly promising field of microtechnology. |
13 November 2002 |
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Information security is all the buzz thanks to a new surveillance system designed by researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Called Secure Safe, this wireless communications system triggers an alarm if a worker leaves a room without properly closing and locking a safe, file drawer or other security container. |
10 October 2002 |
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In an effort to jumpstart the use of clean wind power in the region, the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will purchase and use 8.8 million kilowatt hours of power produced by the new Stateline Wind Power Project, located on the Washington-Oregon border between Pasco and Walla Walla. As a result of the agreement, Richland residents might soon have the option to purchase energy produced by the mammoth wind project as well. |
01 October 2002 |
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Scientists at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have successfully immobilized enzymes while simultaneously enhancing their activity and stability, opening up new possibilities for using tailored nanoporous materials. |
12 September 2002 |
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A regional partnership of economic development organizations, led by the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, today announced the launch of the Northwest Technology Investor Network (www.techinvestnw.com). The network is an online forum that links investors and entrepreneurs in the high-tech sector. |
09 September 2002 |
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A faster, more thorough mass spectrometry method for identifying proteins may significantly advance the technology infrastructure required to comprehend the role proteins play in cellular function and disease development. Already, the one-of-a-kind system, developed at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, is beginning to provide new insights into how microorganisms gobble carbon out of the atmosphere and the role proteins play in a virus known to cause blindness. |
03 September 2002 |
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Scientists at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have obtained the most complete protein coverage of any organism to date with the study of a radiation-resistant microbe known to survive extreme environments. This research potentially could open up new opportunities to harness this microorganism, called Deinococcus radiodurans, for bioremediation. |
12 August 2002 |
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A technology that is designed to rapidly identify hidden weapons, explosives and other contraband, even plastic, ceramic and other non-metallic weapons, through clothing is the cornerstone of a new company formed to commercialize the technology for a variety of security applications. |
05 August 2002 |
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A newly patented way to deposit metal atoms on very thin oxide layers may help next-generation computers boot up instantly, making entire memories immediately available for use. The technique also may help fabricate less expensive catalysts for chemical reactions and lead to better nanotechnology devices and ceramic/metal seals. |
01 August 2002 |
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In this special issue dedicated to homeland security-related technologies and training, we are highlighting just a few projects that fall within PNNL's approximately $220 million national security portfolio. |
07 July 2002 |
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Scientists now have the capability to document atmospheric and climate change at locations nearly anywhere in the world, thanks to a new mobile atmospheric monitoring system developed at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. |
02 April 2002 |
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Precision is crucial during eye surgery, a slight miscalculation could result in partial blindness and damage to the retina. But a new sensor being developed at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory could reduce those risks by alerting surgeons to the location of critical retinal tissues. |
01 December 2001 |
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A holographic imaging system that scans people at airports for hidden weapons, a device that looks for threats and contraband in sealed containers, and an innovative polymer that helps detect nerve agents are among the many counter-terrorism technologies under development at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. |
15 November 2001 |
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A virtual lung model developed at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory may help predict the impact of pollutants on respiratory systems and provide new insights into asthma, a condition afflicting 15 million American adults, as well as other pulmonary diseases. |
27 September 2001 |
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A Battelle technology brought to the Northwest by researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is transforming a waste lagoon into a waste treatment facility at a Washington state dairy. |
29 August 2001 |
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Launching what will be the first sky-based study of Puget Sound's air quality, scientists from the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will fly Seattle's periodically hazy skies this month in search of answers about regional ozone and other pollutants. |
17 August 2001 |
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While searching for a better way to grow turf grass in light of stricter government regulations, a Washington state seed company found help from an unlikely source, former Soviet Union scientists who supported the production of weapons of mass destruction during the Cold War, but who now share their expertise through a U.S. nonproliferation program. |
07 August 2001 |
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If a picture is worth a thousand words, then how valuable is a high-resolution image of fish seen through murky water? Very valuable, according to scientists seeking to understand fish movement near hydropower dams. Recently, fisheries biologists at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory deployed an acoustic camera originally designed for the Navy at a dam in the Northwest to study and illuminate their understanding of fish behavior. |
06 August 2001 |
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Two of the Northwest's largest research institutions, the University of Washington and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, have agreed to jointly study the biological process that could hold the key to longer and better life. |
01 August 2001 |
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While the future of quantum computing offers the potential for substantially greater data storage and faster processing speeds, its advancement has been limited by the absence of certain critically important materials, in particular, a semiconductor that is magnetic at room temperature. Recent experiments only hinted at the possibilities. |
30 July 2001 |
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In an effort to deter resident fish species from entering turbines at Grand Coulee Dam and leaving Lake Roosevelt, the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation announced today that a 5-week study to test an underwater strobe light system began June 30. Scientists from the Tribe, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, U.S. Geological Survey and Bureau of Reclamation are conducting the work. |
16 July 2001 |
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Radiation exposure to personnel working in highly contaminated nuclear tank waste equipment pits may be reduced by as much as 75 percent thanks to the Pit Viper, a remotely operated cleanup system unveiled today by the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. |
05 June 2001 |
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Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Motorola Labs, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have entered a cooperative research and development agreement aimed at increasing the speed of future generations of integrated circuits. |
15 May 2001 |
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By combining an electrically charged gas with a specialized catalyst, researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have successfully reduced harmful oxides of nitrogen in a diesel engine by half. Laboratory results show even greater reductions are possible. |
23 April 2001 |
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When 21st century soldiers suit up for the battlefield in helmets featuring image displays and laser range finders, one of their most important accessories may be a new power generator so lightweight a soldier can carry it with him. The 'soldier-portable generator' is being developed at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for the U.S. Army's Communications-Electronics Command. |
13 April 2001 |
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A new polymer-based material with unique gelling properties found useful in medical applications ranging from targeted cancer treatment to tissue engineering has been developed by researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. |
29 March 2001 |
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Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have cooked up a new way to help food processors solve some sticky, gooey or lumpy problems, add a little ultrasound to the mix. |
14 December 2000 |
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A newly enhanced computer model may help forest managers design or modify forest roads, tree harvesting and other land-use activities based on effects to watersheds, streams and fish habitat. |
28 September 2000 |
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Some crops are grown for food while others are grown to produce consumer products, but a special group of potato plants now is doing both at once. Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a specialized capability to control genes that are transplanted into a plant. Researchers are able to direct desirable traits into a specific portion of a plant, allowing dual-use of one crop. |
12 July 2000 |
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Alternative fuels may be one step closer to popular use thanks to the combination of two new technologies. This marriage of technologies is expected to have such a positive impact on the environment that it has just earned one of four Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards, http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/greenchemistry/presgcc.htm. |
29 June 2000 |
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Time is the enemy for military medical staff struggling to treat injured personnel. Each second spared enhances a person's chances of surviving. A new virtual medical system under development at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory could save time and potentially lives by helping Navy medical corpsmen treat and transport injured sailors or marines more efficiently. |
31 May 2000 |
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Although turbines have generated power at hydroelectric dams for more than 100 years, not much is known about how water flowing through the turbines may harm fish. |
25 May 2000 |
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Now, researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a prototype engineering tool to help ease the minds of fighter pilots and their ground crews. The Holographic 3-Dimensional Radar Camera is a hand-held, zone-imaging device that can assist ground crews in verifying the condition of an aircraft's stealth characteristics. The system can be easily deployed worldwide. |
12 May 2000 |
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A consortium of lighting, building and energy organizations is launching a program this spring to determine which comes first - worker productivity or a well-lit workplace? |
10 May 2000 |
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The local community probably doesn't associate Pacific Northwest National Laboratory with the agricultural industry in the Mid-Columbia. But as a Department of Energy multi-program national laboratory, we focus on a wide range of research areas including health, energy, environment and national security. It may be surprising, but research programs in those areas have many applications within the agriculture and food processing industries. |
02 March 2000 |
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