Microbes and viruses play key roles in carbon and nitrogen cycling in riverbed sediments.

Proteins from “auxiliary” genes in soil viruses play a role in the carbon cycle and climate, scientists have found.

A new study shows how organic molecules respond to global change varies according to functional traits and ecological processes.

A process developed at PNNL that converts biomass and waste into a chemical intermediate or into gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel is available for commercial licensing.

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

Forms of nitrogen released by nitrogen-fixing bacteria differ across sampling scales and in structured environments.

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

Soil transplant experiment gives new insights into coastal forest resilience, rising seas, and increasing storms.

Researchers use machine learning to speed up the analysis of aerosol datasets from mass spectrometry.

Combining advanced powder synthesis with solid state processing allows researchers to streamline oxide dispersion-strengthened steel fabrication.

A novel ecological measurement uncovered interactions between river corridor organic matter assemblages and microbial communities, highlighting potentially important microbial taxa and molecular formula types.

PNNL scientists have developed a new mass spectrometry method for in-depth analysis of proteins in individual cells.

New data analysis approach gives researchers deeper understanding of microbial ecology and evolution.

Data from increasingly complex mass spectrometry instruments met with adaptable data analysis solution.

Proteomics revealed molecular mechanisms by which the drug Verapamil could prolong beta cell function in early-onset type 1 diabetes patients.

Measurements of forest after an anomalous seawater exposure event reveals carbon starvation as dominant process underlying deaths.

Different sized helium cavities that form after ion irradiation are unevenly distributed in a ductile-phase toughened tungsten composite.

Study highlights microbiome’s role in regulating xenobiotic metabolism.

Soil pores are reorganized when newly thawed permafrost soils experience freeze-thaw cycling.

Development of a one-meter path length miniature ion mobility spectrometer based on multilevel structures for lossless ion manipulations.