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PNNL technologies garner six R&D 100 honors

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Grant and Award Announcement

A shoe scanner that would allow people to keep on their footwear as they pass through airport security and a cement that repairs itself are among five PNNL R&D 100 Award recipients. PNNL now has garnered a total of 116 since the program's inception.

Machine learning scientists teach computers to read x-ray images

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PNNL researchers used machine learning to develop a tool for a nonprofit to identify orthopedic implants in X-ray images to improve surgical speed and accuracy.

Advanced mathematics condense COVID-19 complexity

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PNNL scientists are using an advanced mathematical tool called hypergraphs to identify how human cells respond to viral infection, including the new coronavirus.

A watershed study for wetland restoration

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Amy Borde and coauthors at PNNL's Marine and Coastal Research Laboratory developed a new predictive modeling tool for estuarine-tidal river research and management. A decade in the making, the innovative framework provides a means for understanding how both natural and human forces govern hydrology and plant communities in these complex wetland ecosystems, now and into the future.

Network resilience is key to surviving compound hazard events, scientists say

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As extreme weather and other events increase in frequency and intensity, cybercriminals ramp up attacks on technologies that tie together urban infrastructure systems, networks critical to the flow of data, people, goods, and services must be made more resilient to failure, according to a team of scientists.

PNNL, UW broaden capacity to test for COVID-19

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Business Announcement

Researchers from PNNL and UW analyzed kits that could be used as a critical part of a laboratory test used to detect COVID-19 in a sample from an infected person. As a result, two additional kits have been listed as options that labs can consider using, boosting the supply of chemicals and supplies linked to a critical step in the testing process.

Not your average refinery

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

PNNL researchers outline how to convert stranded biomass to sustainable fuel using electrochemical reduction reactions in mini-refineries powered by renewable energy.

Supercooled water is a stable liquid, scientists show for the first time

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

First-ever measurements provide evidence that extremely cold supercooled water exists in two distinct structures that co-exist and vary in proportion dependent on temperature.

Journal: Science
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Office of Science

Tracking a pandemic -- through words

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Data-mining software developed at PNNL is helping analysts keep tabs on developments related to COVID-19. The technology automates the process of combing through tens of thousands of articles each day to provide relevant information about active and emerging biothreats, including the current pandemic.

VOLTTRON™ goes to school

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

The PNNL-developed VOLTTRON™ software platform's advancement has benefited from a community-driven approach. The technology has been used in buildings nationwide, including most recently on a university campus.

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