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 )
JANUARY 13, 2026 News Release Grid Storage Launchpad Opens Doors for Grid-Scale Battery Testing PNNL offers a third-party testing environment to provide battery companies with independent data about their grid-scale systems. ( Read More )
DECEMBER 11, 2025 Feature From Molecules to Batteries and Beyond: Celebrating PNNL’s Energy Storage Legacy For nearly 20 years, PNNL has invested in a multidisciplinary effort to develop better batteries. ( Read More )
DECEMBER 9, 2025 News Release First Testing of Grid-Scale Battery Technology Begins at the Grid Storage Launchpad GSL's utility-grade battery testing operation is now fully operational. ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 21, 2025 Research Highlight Increasing Simulation Accuracy for Quantum Computing An approach combining multiple theories increases the accuracy of quantum-based simulations without increasing computational demands. ( Read More )
SEPTEMBER 22, 2025 Director's Column Looking Back, Moving Forward: Reflections from a Decade as PNNL Director As Laboratory Director Steve Ashby pens his last monthly column, he highlights PNNL’s accomplishments with pride and gratitude. ( Read More )
AUGUST 18, 2025 Feature Grid Storage Launchpad Celebrates First Year of Operations Big energy storage science is brewing at GSL just one year after its groundbreaking. ( 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 )
JULY 2, 2025 Article Improving Battery Efficiency Through Electrolyte Circulation Matt Fayette, a materials scientist, is testing a new method to extend battery life for grid storage by circulating the electrolyte. ( 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 )
JUNE 2, 2025 Article PNNL Partnership Produces Purest-Ever Tungsten In the search for rare physics events, extremely pure materials are essential. A partnership between PNNL and Ultramet has led to tungsten with low contamination from other elements. ( Read More )
MAY 23, 2025 Staff Accomplishment Early Career Researchers Receive High Energy Physics Awards Erik Lentz and Christian Boutan will research quantum information science-enabled discoveries in high energy physics with these awards. ( 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 )
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 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 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 )
NOVEMBER 26, 2024 Article PNNL Scientists Among Most Highly Cited Researchers Nineteen PNNL-affiliated researchers have been named to Clarivate’s 2024 list of the world's most highly cited researchers. ( Read More )