FEBRUARY 6, 2026 Staff Accomplishment Purvine Elected to American Mathematical Society Council Emilie Purvine, a chief data scientist at PNNL, was elected as a council member at large of the American Mathematical Society. ( Read More )
FEBRUARY 2, 2026 Article Secretary Wright Celebrates Scientific Innovation at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Secretary Wright visited PNNL's campus in Richland, Washington, late last year to meet with innovators in chemistry, biology, computing, and more. ( Read More )
JANUARY 13, 2026 News Release Grid Storage Launchpad Opens Doors for Grid-Scale Battery Testing PNNL offers a third-party testing environment to provide battery companies with independent data about their grid-scale systems. ( Read More )
DECEMBER 11, 2025 Feature From Molecules to Batteries and Beyond: Celebrating PNNL’s Energy Storage Legacy For nearly 20 years, PNNL has invested in a multidisciplinary effort to develop better batteries. ( Read More )
DECEMBER 9, 2025 News Release First Testing of Grid-Scale Battery Technology Begins at the Grid Storage Launchpad GSL's utility-grade battery testing operation is now fully operational. ( Read More )
SEPTEMBER 30, 2025 Feature Massive Datasets Meet Their Match An award-winning computing method called poly-streaming accelerates the analysis of massive datasets while using limited memory. ( Read More )
SEPTEMBER 23, 2025 Article DIMPLES Unlocks New Levels of Success in Influence Maximization This achievement earned DIMPLES a Best Paper award at the ACM International Conference on Supercomputing 2025. ( 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 )
AUGUST 18, 2025 Feature Grid Storage Launchpad Celebrates First Year of Operations Big energy storage science is brewing at GSL just one year after its groundbreaking. ( Read More )
AUGUST 15, 2025 Article From Workshop to Publication: PNNL Researchers Advance Hypergraph Science Three research teams led by PNNL organizers achieve journal publications following the Mathematics Research Communities program. ( Read More )
AUGUST 14, 2025 Staff Accomplishment PNNL Research Featured at World's Second-Largest Machine Learning Conference PNNL showcased its expertise in AI, machine learning, and related domains at the International Conference on Machine Learning. ( Read More )
JULY 14, 2025 Article Expanding Data Tools for a Resilient Grid Expanding the nation’s largest wind power plant time series database; helping grid planners navigate a resilient energy future with better data. ( Read More )
JULY 2, 2025 Article Improving Battery Efficiency Through Electrolyte Circulation Matt Fayette, a materials scientist, is testing a new method to extend battery life for grid storage by circulating the electrolyte. ( Read More )
JUNE 2, 2025 Article PNNL Paper Identifies New Path to Study Small Molecules PNNL researchers have published their paper, “Introducing Molecular Hypernetworks for Discovery in Multidimensional Metabolomics Data,” in the Journal of Proteome Research. ( 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 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 )
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 )
FEBRUARY 13, 2025 News Release Mini Flow Battery Speeds Energy Storage Research Mini flow cell battery provides the first step toward an AI-driven, robotic energy storage discovery laboratory. ( Read More )
JANUARY 17, 2025 Article The Youth Are Our Future: Mentor Mariefel Olarte Invests in Interns PNNL chemical engineer Mariefel Olarte shares passion for mentoring students and the next-generation workforce. ( Read More )
OCTOBER 29, 2024 Article Joint Appointments Play a Role in Decarbonization Francesca Pierobon holds a joint appointment with UW and WSU to advance low-carbon technologies. ( Read More )