Latest news from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory on News en-us Copyright 2024 News 115 31 / /images/newswise-logo-rss.gif /articles/how-clean-does-a-quantum-computing-test-facility-need-to-be-pnnl-scientists-show-the-way/?sc=rsin /articles/how-clean-does-a-quantum-computing-test-facility-need-to-be-pnnl-scientists-show-the-way/?sc=rsin Wed, 13 Nov 2024 09:50:55 EST How to keep stray radiation from "shorting" superconducting qubits; a pair of studies shows where ionizing radiation is lurking and how to banish it. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory /articles/hydropower-digital-twins-solution-helps-with-operator-challenges/?sc=rsin /articles/hydropower-digital-twins-solution-helps-with-operator-challenges/?sc=rsin Mon, 11 Nov 2024 09:35:32 EST A new digital twin platform can help hydropower dam operators by providing accurate and predictive models of physical turbines that improve facilities and enhance reliability. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory /articles/researchers-develop-high-tech-methods-to-stem-the-flow-of-fentanyl/?sc=rsin /articles/researchers-develop-high-tech-methods-to-stem-the-flow-of-fentanyl/?sc=rsin Fri, 01 Nov 2024 13:00:02 EST Scientists are developing ways to detect and identify not only new, previously unseen forms of fentanyl but also newer and more dangerous synthetic opioids known as nitazenes. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory /articles/hunting-for-dark-matter-axions/?sc=rsin /articles/hunting-for-dark-matter-axions/?sc=rsin Wed, 30 Oct 2024 14:20:02 EST The search for dark matter includes expertise in radio frequency signal detection, quantum sensing, and high-energy physics at PNNL. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory /articles/collaboration-speeds-complex-chemical-modeling/?sc=rsin /articles/collaboration-speeds-complex-chemical-modeling/?sc=rsin Tue, 29 Oct 2024 16:20:22 EST A recent collaboration among researchers from HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics in Hungary and the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, along with industry collaborators SandboxAQ and NVIDIA, has achieved unprecedented speed and performance in efforts to model complex metal-containing molecules. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory /articles/scientists-address-risks-to-supply-chain-in-a-connected-world/?sc=rsin /articles/scientists-address-risks-to-supply-chain-in-a-connected-world/?sc=rsin Mon, 28 Oct 2024 11:35:05 EST Protecting critical systems such as the electrical grid and water treatment plants from cyber-based risks to the supply chain is the focus of a new conference at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory /articles/researchers-eye-topological-signatures-of-cyber-threats/?sc=rsin /articles/researchers-eye-topological-signatures-of-cyber-threats/?sc=rsin Mon, 28 Oct 2024 07:00:31 EST PNNL researchers are developing a new approach to explore the higher-dimensional shape of cyber systems to identify signatures of adversarial attacks. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory /articles/soils-from-six-continents-add-up-to-largest-database-of-viruses-beneath-our-feet/?sc=rsin /articles/soils-from-six-continents-add-up-to-largest-database-of-viruses-beneath-our-feet/?sc=rsin Wed, 23 Oct 2024 09:00:19 EST Scientists have plumbed the depths of nearly 3,000 soil samples from around the globe to put together the heftiest atlas of soil viruses ever created. But what are all those viruses doing in the soil? More than 97 percent are considered "viral dark matter" that have no known function. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory /articles/cloud-computing-captures-chemistry-code/?sc=rsin /articles/cloud-computing-captures-chemistry-code/?sc=rsin Mon, 21 Oct 2024 09:00:00 EST The speed and agility of cloud computing opens doors to completing advanced computational chemistry workflows in days instead of months. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory /articles/security-professionals-face-cyberattacks-in-real-time-trainings-at-pnnl/?sc=rsin /articles/security-professionals-face-cyberattacks-in-real-time-trainings-at-pnnl/?sc=rsin Wed, 16 Oct 2024 12:30:38 EST Operators of critical infrastructure are trained to respond to cyberattacks using scale models of water treatment plants, freight rail yards, and more. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory /articles/ai-guided-experiments-speed-scientific-discovery/?sc=rsin /articles/ai-guided-experiments-speed-scientific-discovery/?sc=rsin Wed, 25 Sep 2024 19:05:35 EST Finding a needle in a haystack is the quintessentially impossible task. But what if new tools could make it straightforwardly achievable? Imagine if, instead of searching through everything by hand, you could portion out small piles of hay and use magnets. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory /articles/flexible-circuits-made-with-silk-and-graphene-on-the-horizon/?sc=rsin /articles/flexible-circuits-made-with-silk-and-graphene-on-the-horizon/?sc=rsin Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:00:00 EST Ultra-thin layers of silk deposited on graphene in perfect alignment represent a key advance for the control needed in microelectronics and advanced neural network development. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory /articles/three-pnnl-researchers-receive-doe-early-career-research-awards/?sc=rsin /articles/three-pnnl-researchers-receive-doe-early-career-research-awards/?sc=rsin Wed, 11 Sep 2024 13:05:36 EST The Department of Energy (DOE) selected Gavin Cornwell, Sneha Couvillion, and Bo Peng of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to receive 2024 Early Career Research Program awards. The three researchers work in fields that represent major areas of focus for PNNL: Earth science, biology, and chemistry. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory /articles/research-vessel-resilience-charts-course-to-the-future-of-marine-research/?sc=rsin /articles/research-vessel-resilience-charts-course-to-the-future-of-marine-research/?sc=rsin Thu, 05 Sep 2024 17:30:55 EST SEQUIM, Wash.--Officials gathered at the Sequim campus of the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory today to dedicate DOE's first hybrid-electric research vessel, RV Resilience.The event marks the start of a new era of marine energy research at PNNL-Sequim, part of DOE's Office of Science national laboratory system and Resilience's new home port. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory /articles/tackling-one-of-the-most-extreme-environments-on-earth-nuclear-waste/?sc=rsin /articles/tackling-one-of-the-most-extreme-environments-on-earth-nuclear-waste/?sc=rsin Thu, 05 Sep 2024 17:30:28 EST The complicated chemistry of legacy nuclear waste presents a challenge in environmental management. The presence of radioactive ions induces chemical changes that range from faster than the blink of an eye to decades in the making. Since 2016, researchers led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have been persistent in tracking and analyzing the chemical phenomena that occur in the extreme environments found in legacy nuclear waste. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory /articles/long-duration-energy-storage-can-t-wait/?sc=rsin /articles/long-duration-energy-storage-can-t-wait/?sc=rsin Tue, 03 Sep 2024 14:05:31 EST Long-duration energy storage gets the spotlight in a new Energy Storage Research Alliance featuring PNNL innovations, like a molecular digital twin and advanced instrumentation. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory /articles/hands-in-the-glove-box/?sc=rsin /articles/hands-in-the-glove-box/?sc=rsin Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:05:44 EST An international collaboration to protect the world from nuclear threats got a boost in 2023 when a visiting researcher brought an understudied plutonium processing chemistry method to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) for hands-on research. "It's not trivial to bring an outside researcher to PNNL and get them working in a glove box," said PNNL nuclear forensics scientist and technical group leader Dave Meier. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory /articles/digging-into-death-to-save-the-living/?sc=rsin /articles/digging-into-death-to-save-the-living/?sc=rsin Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:05:38 EST Kabrena Rodda, manager of the Analytical Chemistry and Instrumentation Group at PNNL, received the distinction of ACS Fellow. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory /articles/sniff-test-for-explosives-detection-extends-its-reach/?sc=rsin /articles/sniff-test-for-explosives-detection-extends-its-reach/?sc=rsin Tue, 20 Aug 2024 10:00:40 EST Scientists have developed a way to detect tiny amounts of hard-to-detect explosives more than eight feet away. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory /articles/an-electric-grid-that-thinks-ahead/?sc=rsin /articles/an-electric-grid-that-thinks-ahead/?sc=rsin Mon, 19 Aug 2024 17:05:51 EST Researchers are planning for an electric grid that deploys machine learning to think ahead, plan for the worst, anticipate demand, and meet consumer needs safely and securely. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory