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Microbiomes more in flux in patients with inflammatory bowel disease

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Patients with inflammatory bowel disease are more likely to see dramatic shifts in the make-up of the community of microbes in their gut than healthy people, according to the results of a study published in Nature Microbiology. The results help physicians and scientists understand the disease more fully and potentially offer new ways to track the disease and monitor patients.

Journal: Nature Microbiology
Funder: Örebro University Hospital Research Foundation, Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America, Swedish Research Council, National Institutes of Health

Vitamin B12: Power broker to the microbes

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In the microbial world, vitamin B12 is a hot commodity. It turns out that vitamin B12, a substance produced by only a few organisms but needed by nearly all of them, wields great power in microbial communities -- ubiquitous structures that affect energy and food production, the environment, and human health.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Foundation for Basic Research

The contradictory catalyst

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

One reason we can't bottle summer sunshine and save the solar energy for rainy days is that we don't have an efficient way to store it. Nature stores energy in chemical bonds, like when plants photosynthesize our food. Researchers are trying to design catalysts based on inexpensive metals to store energy like nature does.

Biofuel matchmaker: Finding the perfect algae for renewable energy

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Business Announcement

A new streamlined process could quickly pare down heaps of algae species into just a few that hold the most promise for making biofuel.

Funder: US Department of Energy/Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Increasing rainfall in a warmer world will likely intensify typhoons in western Pacific

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An analysis of the strongest tropical storms over the last half-century reveals that higher global temperatures have intensified the storms via enhanced rainfall. Rain that falls on the ocean reduces salinity and allows typhoons to grow stronger.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Scientists bear witness to birth of an ice cloud

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Scientists have witnessed the birth of atmospheric ice clouds, creating ice cloud crystals in the laboratory and then taking images of the process through a microscope, essentially documenting the very first steps of cloud formation. The team took time-lapse movies of the first few seconds when a particle attracts water vapor, forming ice crystals that become the core of icy cirrus clouds - the high, wispy clouds that act much like a blanket for our planet.

Pacific Northwest researchers to play key role in new Manufacturing USA Institute

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

PNNL and Oregon State University are part of the newest institute under the Manufacturing USA Initiative. PNNL and OSU will co-lead the Module and Component Manufacturing Focus Area for the institute.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Many muons: Imaging the underground with help from the cosmos

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Alain Bonneville, a geophysicist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will present details on the muon detector for 'seeing' sequestered carbon dioxide and the comparative field tests at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco. His talk is Thursday, Dec.15, 2016 at 5:40 p.m. in Moscone South, Room 307.

Meeting: 2016 AGU Fall Meeting

Water: Finding the normal within the weird

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have figured out a way to take snapshots of liquid water freezing within a deeply supercooled range of temperatures. This range has long remained a mystery and has given rise to the ideas that it might behave in an unusual way. It turns out water isn't as weird as it could be. Liquid water can exist all the way down to the glass transition point, crystallizing into a solid more slowly as things get colder.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: Department of Energy

Sawdust reinvented into super sponge for oil spills

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Oil spills could be cleaned up in the icy, rough waters of the Arctic with a chemically modified sawdust material that absorbs up to five times its weight in oil and stays afloat for at least four months.

Funder: Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement

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