Investigating cloud condensation nuclei activities in various airmasses enabled linking activity variations with organic oxidation levels and volatility

New study investigates how to use a non-toxic condensation particle counter for airborne atmospheric research

The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Virtual First Responder Capitol Hill Showcase highlighted PNNL work in fentanyl detection standards and database libraries.

A new capability facilitates source apportionment of organic aerosols in real time.

The COVID-19 pandemic massively disrupted human activities, which caused additional turmoil through regional record rainfall and floods.

Measuring the ice nucleation activity of particles in the ambient atmosphere can help develop better representations for use in climate models.

PNNL contributes to 30 years of data on clouds, radiation, and other climate-making factors as part of field campaigns and analysis conducted by DOE's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement user facility.

Parallel graph neural networks identify protein-ligand 3-D structural interactions to aid in protein function prediction and drug discovery.

Researchers use machine learning to speed up the analysis of aerosol datasets from mass spectrometry.

A novel ecological measurement uncovered interactions between river corridor organic matter assemblages and microbial communities, highlighting potentially important microbial taxa and molecular formula types.

PNNL scientists have developed a new mass spectrometry method for in-depth analysis of proteins in individual cells.

Researchers from the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory are collecting soil cores as part of the 1000 Soils Research Pilot to develop a database of molecular-level data from belowground ecosystems.

New data analysis approach gives researchers deeper understanding of microbial ecology and evolution.

The paper was recognized by the Society of Toxicology’s Medical Device and Combination Product Specialty Section.

Data from increasingly complex mass spectrometry instruments met with adaptable data analysis solution.

Proteomics revealed molecular mechanisms by which the drug Verapamil could prolong beta cell function in early-onset type 1 diabetes patients.

Measurements of forest after an anomalous seawater exposure event reveals carbon starvation as dominant process underlying deaths.

PNNL researchers have uncovered a plant-derived process that leads to the formation of aerosol particles over the Amazon rainforest and potentially other forested parts of the world. 

Study highlights microbiome’s role in regulating xenobiotic metabolism.

Soil pores are reorganized when newly thawed permafrost soils experience freeze-thaw cycling.