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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 19-Oct-2025 22:13 ET (20-Oct-2025 02:13 GMT/UTC)

PNNL scientist elected AAAS fellow

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Chemist Zheming Wang is the newest AAAS Fellow, joining the ranks of astronaut Mae Jemison, and Steven Chu, 1997 Nobel laureate in physics who served as the 12th U.S. Secretary of Energy.

Web search formulas offer a first step for protecting critical infrastructure

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists are exploring how web search engine technology might also keep the lights on, the water running and the trains moving.

Funder: Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

Mini flow battery speeds energy storage research

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Mini flow cell battery provides the first step toward an AI-driven, robotic energy storage discovery laboratory.

Journal: Journal of The Electrochemical Society
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Mini flow battery speeds energy storage research

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Mini flow cell battery provides the first step toward an AI-driven, robotic energy storage discovery laboratory.

Journal: Journal of The Electrochemical Society
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Beyond DNA: How environments influence biology to make things happen

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Meeting Announcement

This week at AAAS, PNNL scientists and colleagues discuss phenomics, exposomics, and the factors that influence DNA instructions to bring about the world around us.

Funder: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Meeting: 2025 AAAS Annual Meeting

Geochemist Kevin Rosso appointed a Battelle Fellow

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Geochemist Kevin Rosso earns the highest scientific and leadership honor bestowed by PNNL.

Microelectronics Science Research Centers to lead charge on next-generation designs and prototypes

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Business Announcement

A new generation of microelectronics research begins at PNNL.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Metal scrap upcycled into high-value alloys with solid phase manufacturing

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Solid phase manufacturing can create new custom metal alloys through an innovative process called solid phase alloying, researchers from PNNL report.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Faster, more informed environmental permitting with AI-guided support

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Reports and Proceedings

Federal environmental permitting process to be fast-tracked with AI-powered tools and cloud-supported data analysis.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Delay and pay: Tipping point costs quadruple after waiting

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The cost of reversing the effects of climate change—restoring melted polar sea ice, for example—quickly climbs nearly fourfold soon after a tipping point is crossed, according to new work publishing in the journal npj Climate and Atmospheric Science on Tuesday, Nov. 26. Much work has been done to explore the environmental costs tied to climate change. But this new study marks the first time researchers have quantified the costs of controlling tipping points before and after they unfold.

Journal: npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

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