A new simple and scalable synthesis produces nanoparticle assemblies that can perform catalytic hydrogen sensing at room temperature for the first time.

Assessing a complex concert of the weather and terrain conditions that affect the growth of cumulus clouds into deep thunderstorms along mountain ranges.

Tropical cyclones induce sea surface cooling, but their associated heavy rainfall reduces the effect through increased ocean mixing.

Researchers studied water cycling to assess the achievability of net-zero water usage at military installations in the Pacific Islands.

Relaxing the simplifying assumptions in model energy budgets can affect their simulated regional water cycles.

A new approach to epitaxial growth can produce different complex oxides through ion movement.

The buried interfaces between sections of a doped material can play a key role in the overall electronic properties of the system.

A novel combination of temperature and four-dimensional geophysical sensors revealed otherwise unseeable hydrologic dynamics below riverbed sediments.

Dominant and functionally important soil microbes show strong, predictable, and distinctly different associations with continental-scale gradients in climate, vegetation, and soil moisture.

New research quantifies the discrepancies between ground measurements of soil respiration and satellite estimates of photosynthesis.

PNNL scientists have proposed an "adaptive site management" cleanup strategy for the Hanford Site's Central Plateau that incorporates a structured, flexible approach to environmental remediation.

Protein ribbons direct and facilitate the formation of a calcium-based mineral that forms tooth enamel.

PNNL researchers created a model that helps materials scientists not only predict what is, but what could be.

PNNL researchers design an artificial intelligence-guided electron microscope in a Laboratory Directed Research and Development study.

Researchers at PNNL are developing a better model of the soil, better representing the atmosphere, and identifying sources of record high rainfall within a model of the Earth system.

Researchers are studying the chemical reactions that occur when oxygen mixes into the surface of oxide materials.

An improved model captures the interactions between the U.S. economy, energy, water, and land systems with increased spatial and temporal detail.

Recalibrating both cloud and subgrid representations improves model projections of the base climate, aerosol-cloud interactions, and cloud feedbacks.

Tuning the environment and platinum-group metal allows researchers to control which bonds the catalyst breaks using hydrogen.

A climate change study co-authored by PNNL scientist Hailong Wang inspired an artist to create an exhibit based on the research.