An enzyme called nitrogenase works each symmetrical half in turn to produce ammonia efficiently.

PNNL's self-powered fish-tracking tag uses a flexible strip containing piezoelectric materials to emit tiny beeps that are recorded by underwater receivers. The device is designed for long-living fish such as sturgeon, eels and lamprey.

A PNNL-developed catalyst is being used by licensee LanzaTech to make biofuel for Virgin Atlantic Airlines.

PNNL's Michael Rosenberg has been elected a fellow of ASHRAE for contributions to energy codes and standards for efficient buildings.

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.

PNNL scientists untangled a soil metagenome – all the genetic material recovered from a sample of soil – more fully than ever before, reconstructing portions of the genomes of 129 species of microbes.

PNNL researchers have uncovered the secret that enables Synechococcus 7002 to thrive under bright light: The organism, popular in research on biofuels and chemicals, triples in size to accommodate a rapid expansion of its cellular machinery.

The PNNL-led Battery500 consortium aims to significantly improve upon the batteries that power today's electric vehicles by almost tripling the specific energy in lithium batteries.

PNNL scientist Greg Kimmel has been elected to the rank of Fellow of the American Vacuum Society for his research on "water behavior."

Students will have more opportunities to get pumped about science, engineering, technology and mathematics thanks to a boost to STEM education from Battelle this month.

Synthetic membranes that mimic a cell membrane's most useful qualities might soon be made with new lipid-like peptoids.

PNNL’s "Dream Team" has been selected to lead one of four new Energy Frontier Research Centers to accelerate scientific breakthroughs needed to support the Department of Energy’s cleanup mission.

A free, web-based tool developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory estimates the emissions impacts associated for companies considering adopting various smart grid technologies.

Scientists at PNNL and Johns Hopkins have led a large study that identifies critical proteins present in the tumors of patients with ovarian cancer.

PNNL's Richard Moss will be chairing the Advisory Committee for the Sustained National Climate Assessment, newly appointed by NOAA to assist the nation in preparing for the impacts of climate change.

PNNL inks Memorandum of Understanding with Queensland University of Technology