​​Tests show which low-cost 3D method best matches field measurements to minimize errors in mapping headwaters.​

More rain and less snow shorten how long water stays in watersheds.

Five PNNL innovations earned 2026 R&D 100 Awards for advances in biotechnology, manufacturing, critical minerals, and nuclear security.

PNNL Launches Center for Robotics and Autonomy to advance trustworthy autonomous science at speed and scale.

Researchers build visibility for PNNL through involvement in national workshop reports while helping shape DOE’s future research priorities.

Genesis Mission awards to PNNL will advance scientific discovery, next-generation energy systems and advanced manufacturing, among others.

PNNL has named atmospheric scientist Larry Berg director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility, where he will oversee a global network of atmospheric research observations.

AutoLabs is a new agentic AI system that translates experimental goals into robot-specific language.

New partnership agreement to focus on AI, robotics, and advanced energy systems.

Critical minerals could be sourced from industrial waste at scale thanks to an AI-guided separation workflow developed by researchers at PNNL.

Integrating multiple structural proteomics techniques helps unravel microbial responses to changing environments—key to developing next-generation biotechnology solutions.

Study shows the advantages of top-town proteomics for characterizing histones.

Scientists equipped research subjects with wristbands to measure many factors that contribute to their exposome.

Scientists are optimizing microbes to harvest critical minerals and produce bioproducts using AI and autonomous lab equipment.

At the summit, PNNL engaged with partners and investors, highlighting seven projects that accelerate the deployment of new energy technologies.

David Wunschel, a chemist and Laboratory Fellow, participated on a panel focused on how emerging technologies are transforming CBRN defense, detection, and response across military and government operations.

Integrating new functions into a genome-scale model enabled researchers to simulate and experimentally validate viral hijacking pathways.

Margaret Cheung elected to premier scientific society.

A microbial community expresses a phenotype of interest ~20 percent higher than the sum of each member species.

Automated liquid handling, combined with data analysis and AI, optimizes microbiological growth conditions at PNNL.