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X-ray microscopy seen as next wave in structural biology research

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers will explore how X-ray imaging can surpass X-ray crystallography for gathering detailed structural and functional information.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy
Meeting: 2012 AAAS Annual Meeting

Working together to bounce back from disaster

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

While examining two of the world's largest environmental crises in recent history – the 2011 Japanese earthquake, tsunami and nuclear emergency and the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the US's Gulf of Mexico – a group of experts will discuss how communities can better bounce back from disasters.

Meeting: 2012 AAAS Annual Meeting

PNNL's Mike Kluse named Laboratory Director of the Year

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

PNNL Director Mike Kluse has been named 2012 Laboratory Director of the Year by the Federal Laboratory Consortium for his support of technology transfer and commercialization.

PNNL recognized for technology transfer

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is receiving a Federal Laboratory Consortium award for bringing a lab-developed technology that improves research sample analysis to the marketplace.

The great gas hydrate escape

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A computer analysis of gas hydrates reveals key details of their structure. The results show that hydrates can hold hydrogen at an optimal capacity of 5 weight-percent, a value that meets the goal of a Department of Energy standard, making gas hydrates practical. The analysis is the first time researchers have accurately quantified the molecular-scale interactions between the gases -- either hydrogen or methane -- and the water molecules that form cages around them.

Journal: Chemical Physics Letters
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

PNNL's Olympus supercomputer advances science, saves energy

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Olympus, the new theoretical 162-peak-Teraflop supercomputer at PNNL, is helping scientists do more complex, advanced research in areas such as energy storage and power grid development. It also uses less energy with a unique water cooling system.

Funder: DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Biofuels from bacteria is biochemist's goal

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Environmental proteomics does not just aid development of new biofuels but helps further understanding of the impact of climate change and the use of organisms for bioremediation.

Weather deserves medal for clean air during 2008 Olympics

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research suggests that China's impressive feat of cutting Beijing's pollution up to 50 percent for the 2008 Summer Olympics had some help from Mother Nature. Rain just at the beginning and wind during the Olympics likely contributed about half of the effort needed to clean up the skies, scientists found. The results also suggest emission controls need to be more widely implemented than in 2008 if pollution levels are to be reduced permanently.

Journal: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Home sweet, energy efficient, home

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Two new research facilities at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will serve as a test bed for studying energy efficient and smart homes.

PNNL talks climate, wind and carbon at AGU

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will present research related to climate change, wind power, carbon sequestration and more at the 2011 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, which runs Dec. 5=9.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy
Meeting: 2011 AGU Fall Meeting

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