JANUARY 5, 2026 News Release Discoveries Rewrite How Some Minerals Form and Dissolve Mystery of how important aluminum minerals form and dissolve solved with materials science and advanced imaging studies. ( Read More )
SEPTEMBER 25, 2025 News Release A Chilling Discovery: The Surprising Flexibility of Ice Ice crystals are surprisingly tolerant of defects in their structure. The findings come from the first-ever molecular-resolution observations of nanoscale samples of ice frozen from liquid water. ( Read More )
AUGUST 20, 2025 News Release Unique Active Memory Computer Purpose-built for AI Science Applications Micron and PNNL co-design the Crete computer system, delivering a new memory architecture for data-intensive scientific computing and AI applications. ( Read More )
JULY 21, 2025 Feature Laying the Groundwork for a Quantum Leap in Chemistry Quantum computing promises leaps in chemistry and materials science, and PNNL is preparing to realize its potential with a collaborative approach. ( Read More )
JUNE 12, 2025 Research Highlight More Accurate Green’s Function Simulations A new time-dependent wavefunction formulation for the cumulant Green’s functions can produce more accurate simulations. ( Read More )
JUNE 2, 2025 Research Highlight Neural Networks for Evaluating Effective Interactions Neural networks techniques enable the efficient capture of electron correlation effects in reduced-dimensionality spaces. ( Read More )
MAY 23, 2025 Research Highlight Unleashing Quantum Computing for Quantum Chemistry from Constrained Optimization Developing a new scheme to more efficiently solve quantum chemistry problems. ( Read More )
APRIL 23, 2025 News Release Scientists Speed Up the Groundwork Essential for Quantum Computing Researchers have created an algorithm that slashes the calculations necessary to prepare and customize data for quantum computing. ( Read More )
MARCH 18, 2025 Feature Researchers Put Frontier AI Models Through Paces to See What Sticks at AI Jam Nine national laboratories, including PNNL, bring together over 1,000 scientists for a day to use AI to accelerate scientific discovery. ( Read More )
JANUARY 17, 2025 Article The Youth Are Our Future: Mentor Mariefel Olarte Invests in Interns PNNL chemical engineer Mariefel Olarte shares passion for mentoring students and the next-generation workforce. ( Read More )
JANUARY 17, 2025 Article Democratizing Computational Chemistry with the Cloud PNNL Program Development Office Director Karl Mueller explains how the TEC4 project seeks to make advanced chemical computations accessible to all. ( Read More )
JANUARY 17, 2025 Feature Flow Across Scales with a Quantum Computing Boost A potential quantum advantage for fluid dynamics simulations from molecular to atmospheric scales with a new formula for success. ( Read More )
JANUARY 14, 2025 Research Highlight Porting Scalable Computational Chemistry to Cloud Computing Electronic structure codes in a cloud environment can enable efficient computational chemistry simulations. ( Read More )
JANUARY 10, 2025 Article New AI Agent Connects Computer Reasoning with Chemistry CACTUS provides AI-powered cheminformatics for autonomous science. ( Read More )
DECEMBER 10, 2024 Research Highlight Polaritonic Chemistry with the Density Matrix Renormalization Group Method Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers developed a new theoretical method for studying highly correlated systems. ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 7, 2024 Article Longtime PNNL Collaborator Received Nobel Prize University of Washington Professor David Baker won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for computational protein design. ( Read More )
OCTOBER 28, 2024 Feature Collaboration Speeds Complex Chemical Modeling Calculating quantum chemistry quickly allows scientists to refine their understanding of complex chemical systems. ( Read More )
OCTOBER 21, 2024 News Release Cloud Computing Captures Chemistry Code The speed and agility of cloud computing opens doors to completing advanced computational chemistry workflows in days instead of months. ( Read More )
OCTOBER 16, 2024 Staff Accomplishment Exploring Energy Efficiency through Analog Computing Researchers discussed this topic at the 2024 Analog Computing for Science Workshop co-led by Antonino Tumeo. ( Read More )
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024 Feature Three PNNL Researchers Receive DOE Early Career Research Awards Three PNNL researchers will receive five continuous years of funding for projects through highly competitive DOE Early Career Research Program awards. ( Read More )