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 7, 2026 Staff Accomplishment PNNL Advisor Shapes Dialogue at gridCONNEXT Van Cleve guides conversations on national grid modernization strategies, reinforcing PNNL’s role in connecting science, policy, and industry. ( 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 )
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 19, 2025 Staff Accomplishment Laura di Vacri Joins the Coordinating Panel for Advanced Detectors di Vacri’s expertise in low-background detection earned her a place on the Executive Board of the Coordinating Panel for Advanced Detectors. ( 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 30, 2025 Research Highlight Evaluating the Performance of Ductile Phase Toughened Tungsten Under the Simulated Fusion Environment Researchers at PNNL studied the effects of high temperatures and ionizing radiation on tungsten heavy alloys. ( 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 )
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 )
NOVEMBER 19, 2024 Article Paving the Way for Fusion Commercialization PNNL researchers co-organized a workshop on fusion commercialization with partners from industry and academia ( 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 )
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 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 )
OCTOBER 10, 2024 Article New Funding for Fusion Materials Projects PNNL researchers will pursue both fundamental and applied projects with this support from the Department of Energy ( Read More )