A PNNL expert on rock chemistry and microbial life is part of a team investigating whether there has ever been life on Mars.

A material called mayenite can be turned from an insulator to a transparent conductor and back with a tiny change in its chemical composition. It turns out components called electron anions help to transform crystalline mayenite into semiconducting glass.

Two researchers at DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have been elected to membership in the Washington State Academy of Sciences.

Helping fish migrate past dams could cost a fraction of conventional fish ladders with the help of PNNL's upcoming study of Whooshh Innovations' so-called Salmon Cannon.

American companies are increasingly making their own power – and sales – with wind turbines located near the factories and buildings that consume the power they make, concludes PNNL's 2015 Distributed Wind Market Report.