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COVID-causing virus in air detected with high-tech bubbles

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists can detect the virus that causes COVID-19 by using a bubble that spills its contents like a piñata when encountering the virus.

Journal: MRS Communications
Funder: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

The science of hurricanes: Preparing for and enduring big storms

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Scientists at PNNL are working to better prepare authorities, emergency responders, communities and the grid in the face of increasingly extreme hurricanes.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Defense

Converting carbon dioxide to minerals underground

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Some rocks can potentially convert injected carbon dioxide into more stable solid minerals. A new review article explores what scientists know about the atom-by-atom process.

Journal: Nature Reviews Chemistry
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Western wildfires spark stronger storms in downwind states

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study shows for the first time that wildfires burning in West Coast states can strengthen storms in downwind states. Heat and tiny airborne particles produced by western wildfires distantly intensify severe storms, in some cases bringing baseball-sized hail, heavier rain and flash flooding to states like Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and the Dakotas.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Machine learning accelerates development of advanced manufacturing techniques

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Scientists are pioneering approaches in the branch of artificial intelligence known as machine learning to design and train computer software programs that guide the development of new manufacturing processes.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Faster-developing, wetter hurricanes to come

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a new study, PNNL researchers find that the U.S. Atlantic Coast is becoming a breeding ground for rapidly intensifying hurricanes. Fueled by environmental conditions that beget increasingly severe storms—with climate change as a root contributor—the new research finds that hurricanes are growing wetter and strengthening faster near the already hurricane-battered coastline.

Journal: Geophysical Research Letters
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, NOAA Research

Interns boost careers at PNNL

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

In honor of National Intern Day, PNNL and intern Jonathan Mills were named among the Top 100 in the nation by early-career recruiting firm WayUp.

New superconducting qubit testbed benefits quantum information science development

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

A new testbed facility capable of testing superconducting qubit fidelity in a controlled environment free of stray background radiation will benefit quantum information sciences and the development of quantum computing.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Simple process extracts valuable magnesium salt from seawater

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new, simple, and efficient flow-based method allows researchers to pull a useful magnesium salt from natural seawater using easily available chemicals.

Journal: Environmental Science & Technology Letters
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Atomic-scale imaging reveals a facile route to crystal formation

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

New research from PNNL sheds light on how crystals form using atomic force microscopy.

Journal: Science Advances

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