FEBRUARY 11, 2026 News Release Earthquake Data Provide Solid Footing for AI Foundation Science Model Scientists are tapping earthquake data to develop a new AI foundation model called SeisModal. ( Read More )
JANUARY 8, 2026 News Release Generative AI Speeds up Cybersecurity Defenses Scientists are using generative AI to improve cyber defenses, speeding up a process known as adversary emulation. ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 24, 2025 News Release Energy Department Launches ‘Genesis Mission’ to Transform American Science and Innovation Through the AI Computing Revolution The Genesis Mission will mobilize the Department of Energy’s 17 National Laboratories, industry, and academia to build an integrated discovery platform. ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 17, 2025 News Release Scientists Identify Two Key Targets of Common Cold Virus PNNL researchers are opening up a new front in the fight to stop viral pathogens, protecting people against multiple viruses. ( Read More )
SEPTEMBER 25, 2025 News Release PNNL Joins Space Research Group, Bringing Its Nuclear and Cybersecurity Expertise to New Heights PNNL brings its expertise to the space domain by joining an organization that facilitates collaboration across the global space industry. ( 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 )
AUGUST 13, 2025 News Release New Research Effort Could Boost Nuclear Fuel Performance Researchers have begun a series of experiments that could bring about more energy for grid, thanks to a special delivery of 11 "high burnup" rods. ( Read More )
JULY 22, 2025 News Release Scientists Investigate Use of AI to Speed Analysis of Nuclear Materials Scientists have tapped AI and powerful computing to speed up how quickly officials are able to learn important details about nuclear events. ( Read More )
JUNE 24, 2025 News Release Chemists Develop Contactless System to Detect Fentanyl, Other Drugs PNNL has created and licensed a system that sniffs out trace levels of fentanyl, other drugs and explosives through the air. ( Read More )
APRIL 24, 2025 News Release It’s Time to Get Comfortable with Uncertainty in AI Model Training Researchers can now quantify uncertainty in trained AI models aimed at solving difficult chemistry, biology and materials science problems. ( 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 )
DECEMBER 23, 2024 News Release Microelectronics Science Research Centers to Lead Charge on Next-Generation Designs and Prototypes A new generation of microelectronics research begins at PNNL. ( Read More )
DECEMBER 12, 2024 News Release Metal Scrap Upcycled into High-Value Alloys with Solid Phase Manufacturing Solid phase manufacturing can create new custom metal alloys through an innovative process called solid phase alloying, researchers from PNNL report. ( 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 )
NOVEMBER 13, 2024 News Release How ‘Clean’ Does a Quantum Computing Test Facility Need to Be? PNNL Scientists Show the Way How to keep stray radiation from “shorting” superconducting qubits; a pair of studies shows where ionizing radiation is lurking and how to banish it. ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 1, 2024 News Release Researchers Develop High-Tech Methods to Stem the Flow of Fentanyl Scientists are developing ways to detect previously unseen forms of fentanyl as well as other synthetic opioids known as nitazenes. ( 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 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 )
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024 News Release PNNL Takes Its Radiation Expertise to Space A launch from Cape Canaveral early today carried a PNNL experiment to space so scientists can learn more about radiation far above Earth. ( 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 )