FEBRUARY 2, 2026 Article Secretary Wright Celebrates Scientific Innovation at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Secretary Wright visited PNNL's campus in Richland, Washington, late last year to meet with innovators in chemistry, biology, computing, and more. ( Read More )
JANUARY 26, 2026 Article DOE’s Under Secretary for Science Visits PNNL, Highlights Lab’s Role in AI-Driven Discovery Darío Gil, DOE's Undersecretary for Science, makes his inaugural visit to PNNL. ( Read More )
AUGUST 21, 2025 News Release PermitAI Ushers in a New Era for Faster, Better Federal Permitting PermitAI’s newly released dataset, NEPATEC 2.0, captures and curates environmental review data for faster, better federal permitting. ( 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 5, 2025 Staff Accomplishment New Co-director Selected for PNNL-Georgia Tech Joint Research Institute Danny Herrera, a systems engineer and leader in the National Security Directorate at PNNL, has been named the new co-director of the Institute for Cybersecurity and Resilient Infrastructure Studies. ( 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 )
MARCH 17, 2025 News Release Web Search Formulas Offer a First Step for Protecting Critical Infrastructure Scientists are exploring how web search engine technology might also keep the lights on, the water running and the trains moving. ( Read More )
FEBRUARY 13, 2025 News Release Mini Flow Battery Speeds Energy Storage Research Mini flow cell battery provides the first step toward an AI-driven, robotic energy storage discovery laboratory. ( 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 )
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 )
DECEMBER 3, 2024 News Release Faster, More Informed Environmental Permitting with AI-Guided Support Federal environmental permitting process to be fast-tracked with AI-powered tools and cloud-supported data analysis. ( Read More )
OCTOBER 30, 2024 Feature Hunting for Dark Matter Axions The search for dark matter includes expertise in radio frequency signal detection, quantum sensing, and high-energy physics at PNNL. ( Read More )
OCTOBER 28, 2024 News Release Scientists Address Risks to Supply Chain in a Connected World Protecting critical systems such as the electrical grid from cyber-based risks to the supply chain is the focus of a new PNNL conference. ( Read More )
OCTOBER 14, 2024 Feature A Recipe for Quantum Scaling ARQUIN computational pipeline provides a holistic framework for simulating a system with distributed quantum computing ingredients. ( 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 )
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024 Staff Accomplishment Bylaska Selected for Computational Materials Science Award Bylaska and team will aim to make computational design of functional materials more targeted, impactful, and user friendly through this award. ( Read More )
AUGUST 29, 2024 News Release PNNL Technology Wins Three R&D 100 Awards Three PNNL technologies have been named 2024 R&D 100 Award winners. ( Read More )