Scientists unravel a secret to oil production in plants, opening up the possibility of increasing production for biofuels and other applications.

New research sheds light on the biomolecular dangers of night shift work.

Vigorous exercise burns fat more in males than in females, but the benefits of exercise are broad for both sexes.

Scientists have learned more about how to protect the insulin-producing cells that die in patients with Type 1 diabetes.

Scientists stop the motion of atoms to watch electrons move in liquid water.

PNNL researchers helped identify a fragment from the SARS-CoV-2 virus that spurs severe illness.

Scientists have learned more about how drug resistance develops in patients with acute myeloid leukemia and how the process might be slowed.

Understanding the risk of compound energy droughts—times when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow—will help grid planners understand where energy storage is needed most.

Floating offshore wind farms could potentially triple the Pacific Northwest's wind power capacity while offsetting billions of dollars in costs for utilities, ratepayers, insurance companies, and others.

Rechargeable battery performance could be improved by a new understanding of how batteries work at the molecular level. Researchers at PNNL upend what's known about how rechargeable batteries function.

PNNL is collaborating with Microsoft, Micron and other partners to make computational chemistry broadly available.

Scientists have opened a new view into the workings of the central nervous system, finding a diverse set of important molecules.

A new flow battery design achieves long life and capacity for grid energy storage from renewable fuels.

Scientists have taken an important step forward in predicting who will develop Type 1 diabetes months before symptoms appear.

A new method to convert waste plastic to fuel and raw materials promises to help close the carbon cycle at mild temperature and with high yield.

A detailed snapshot of proteins by PNNL scientists marks a big step toward a diagnostic blood test for a deadly form of liver disease.

PNNL scientists carve a path to profit from carbon capture by creating a system that efficiently captures CO2 and converts it into one of the world’s most widely used chemicals: methanol.

Ancient seawater pockets offer a new source of clues to climate change in vanished oceans and our own.

A new discovery simultaneously reduces the need for rare and expensive platinum and improves its ability to speed up economically important chemical reactions.

Scientists can detect the virus that causes COVID-19 by using a bubble that spills its contents like a piñata when encountering the virus.