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 30, 2025 News Release PNNL Hosts Inaugural Conference on Predictive Phenomics PNNL is hosting a scientific conference focused directly on understanding and predicting the collection of an organism’s traits. ( 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 )
APRIL 8, 2025 News Release Disturbed Sleep Cycle Propels Cyanobacteria Into Surprising Burst of Productivity Circadian rhythms of blue-green microbes offer new window into predictive phenomics—how to predict and control the traits of an organism. ( Read More )
FEBRUARY 13, 2025 News Release Beyond DNA: How Environments Influence Biology to Make Things Happen This week at AAAS, PNNL scientists discuss phenomics and the factors that influence DNA instructions to bring about the world around us. ( 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 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 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 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 )
OCTOBER 17, 2024 News Release Soils from Six Continents Add Up to Largest Database of Viruses Beneath Our Feet Scientists plumbed the depths of nearly 3,000 soil samples from around the globe to compile the heftiest atlas of soil viruses ever created. ( Read More )
AUGUST 6, 2024 News Release Sniff Test for Explosives Detection Extends Its Reach Scientists have developed a way to detect tiny amounts of hard-to-detect explosives more than eight feet away. ( Read More )
AUGUST 1, 2024 News Release Experiment on Photosynthesis by Scientists at PNNL Headed to the Space Station As launch time draws near, PNNL scientists are eager to explore how plants might grow in space, where the effect of gravity is substantially weaker. ( Read More )
JULY 23, 2024 News Release PNNL Scientists Tap Nation’s Fastest Computers to Explore Critical Science Questions Researchers will explore climate, pathogens and energy-efficient microelectronics using 3 million node hours on the nation’s supercomputers. ( Read More )
JUNE 12, 2024 News Release Metal Alloys that Can Take the Heat Complex metal alloys enter a new era of predictive design for aerospace and other high-temperature applications. ( Read More )
MAY 9, 2024 News Release Study Shows How Night Shift Work Can Raise Risk of Diabetes, Obesity New research sheds light on the biomolecular dangers of night shift work. ( Read More )
MAY 1, 2024 News Release When Working Out, Males Are Programmed to Burn More Fat, while Females Recycle It—at Least in Rats Vigorous exercise burns fat more in males than in females, but the benefits of exercise are broad for both sexes. ( Read More )
MARCH 1, 2024 News Release PNNL Scientists Help Pinpoint Molecular Switch Active in Type-1 Diabetes Scientists have learned more about how to protect the insulin-producing cells that die in patients with Type 1 diabetes. ( Read More )
FEBRUARY 8, 2024 News Release EMSL User Project Leads to Key Molecular Culprit Active in COVID-19 PNNL researchers helped identify a fragment from the SARS-CoV-2 virus that spurs severe illness. ( Read More )
FEBRUARY 2, 2024 News Release Proteins Suggest a Path to Reduce Drug Resistance in a Form of Cancer Scientists have learned more about how drug resistance develops in patients with acute myeloid leukemia and how the process might be slowed. ( Read More )
JANUARY 9, 2024 News Release PNNL Kicks Off Multi-Year Energy Storage, Scientific Discovery Collaboration with Microsoft The convergence of artificial intelligence, cloud, and high-performance computing to accelerate scientific discovery is the focus of a multi-year collaboration between Microsoft and PNNL. ( Read More )