A new technology that offers a novel way to manufacture extrusions with unprecedented improvements in material properties recently received a U.S. patent.

Installing new access holes (up to 6 feet in diameter) could reduce the overall time and cost to retrieve waste from Hanford's underground storage tanks, according to a structural analysis of the tank domes by PNNL and Becht Engineering.

Researchers at PNNL are developing a new class of acoustically active nanomaterials designed to improve the high-resolution tracking of exploratory fluids injected into the subsurface. These could improve subsurface geophysical monitoring.

"It's sort of like using infrared goggles to see heat signatures in the dark, except this is underground." PNNL and CHPRC implemented a state-of-the-art approach to monitor the process of remediating residual uranium at Hanford's 300 Area.

PNNL scientists today unveiled an updated tool designed to help stakeholders assess the nation's preparedness for biological-based dangers, also known as biothreats.

Study shows that emissions from trans-Arctic shipping could increase clouds, cooling the atmosphere and surface.

Case studies in six cities of barriers to implementing building energy codes.

Understanding the functional traits of Arctic and alpine tundra plant communities will enable better model projections of how they transform in warmer conditions.

Researchers found sea surface temperature accounts for only 20 percent of extreme precipitation variability along the U.S. West Coast.

Water management activities could reduce both the duration and intensity of agricultural droughts by a factor of about ten in most regions, while they may increase those of hydrological droughts by up to 50 percent.

Improving water conservation in the Energy Exascale Earth System Model's atmosphere component has important implications for projecting sea level change.

Surrounded by the Amazon rainforest, aircraft measurements from the urban plume over Manaus, Brazil, reveal the life cycle of organic aerosol.

With improved cloud microphysics representing observed storm structures, models can better simulate long-lasting storms prone to produce flooding.

New open-source software mimics complex global hydrological models with extraordinary computational efficiency.

Study identifies recurrent patterns of temperature response to energy changes at random locations.