The Department of Energy’s Transportation Technologies Office has issued two 2026 Annual Merit Review Awards to researchers from PNNL. Both awards recognize PNNL researchers whose work is reducing the need for critical materials.

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

Mechanical engineer Scott Whalen is named the Department of Energy’s Innovator of the Year for turning the patented metal extrusion invention ShAPE™ into an industrially relevant extruded metal product juggernaut.

Chiral nanotubes facilitate the direction-specific diffusion of carbon dioxide to be faster than nitrogen gas.

Novel Applications for Synchronized Power Instrumentation seeks to improve electric grid resilience, reliability, security, and affordability.

Battery researchers are ready to work with private companies who want to test their own chemistries in a prismatic cell format.

A new report highlights a public workshop hosted by the National Academies Forum on Microbial Threats and features PNNL's Lauren Charles and the AI-Driven One Health Security program.

A research team from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory used machine reasoning to schedule scientific workflows while guaranteeing quality of service (QoS).

PNNL researchers highlighted advances in AI for scientific discovery at the AI+ Expo, showcasing generative AI, autonomous research workflows, and scalable AI systems supporting energy, security, and national competitiveness.

Researchers at PNNL have developed an interpretable, lightweight AI model that can easily predict weld microstructure features using only basic machine sensor inputs.

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

At a geospatial intelligence conference, senior data scientist Adam Attarian participated in a panel discussing how national laboratories are delivering science, technology, and partnerships to enhance modeling, analysis, and innovation.

As space exploration flourishes, a new governance working group has been established; Kate Doty will co-lead the effort.

PNNL helps strengthen domestic supply of critical mineral needed for new cutting-edge cancer therapy.

PNNL has named Douglas Mans and Daniel Stephens as associate laboratory directors to lead science and national security strategies.

Graduate student researcher wins best poster awards from the American Ceramic Society.

Stephen Hernandez and Kaley Walker are among the 72 fellows who have the distinction of being part of the 30th class of the NNSA Graduate Fellowship Program.

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

PNNL and Maritime Blue, a Washington state-based strategic alliance promoting maritime business in the Pacific Northwest, have released a report highlighting challenges—and solutions—for reinvigorating shipbuilding in the region.

PNNL has administered NGFP on behalf of NNSA since 2002. Looking toward the future, NGFP has signed a partnership agreement with INMM with the goal of expanding its reach to more future leaders with a passion to serve.