Gifts for a Brighter Future: PNNL’s 2021 Science and Technology Highlights
From water purification, to better batteries and tools to foil a cyberattack—a look back at how PNNL helped to invent a brighter and better future over the last year.
Every Day is Earth Day for Some PNNL Researchers
Understanding the Earth as a complex, dynamic system includes investigating what happens on, above and below its surface.
Researchers at PNNL to Dig into Soil Returning from Space
Studying how microorganisms behave in space could facilitate farming in the final frontier and lead to better crops on Earth.
Roadmap to Close the Carbon Cycle
Reaching net-zero carbon emissions goals requires finding transformative paths to manage carbon in difficult-to-electrify economic sectors.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: PNNL’s Commitment to Transform the World
At the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, our 4,400 exceptional staff members are committed to transforming the world through science and technology.
Net Zero World Initiative to Accelerate Global Clean Energy
Through the Net Zero World Initiative, expertise from DOE national laboratories will be harnessed to put global net zero within reach.
PNNL Detecting and Preventing the Use of Chemical Weapons
Like detectives looking for clues, researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have been working for nearly a decade on ways to identify the "fingerprints" of potential chemical threats.
PNNL Lending a Hand—and Technology—to First Responders
When disaster strikes, first responders rush in to provide assistance. In addition to their courage and training, they depend on a panoply of technologies to do their jobs.
These Tiny Tubes Can Bring Water to Millions. And That's Just Scratching the Surface
Imagine a hollow tube thousands of times smaller than a human hair. Now envision filthy water flowing through an array of such tubes, each designed to capture contaminants on the inside, with clean water emerging at the other end.
New $90M PNNL Center to Focus on Solving Clean Energy’s Biggest Puzzles
PNNL’s new Energy Sciences Center has capabilities for scientists to advance solutions for storing clean hydrogen in chemical bonds.