Within the Department of Energy’s (DOE) EMSL, new high-performance computing breakthroughs often are the result of combining the best of two worlds. Experimental and computational tools are integrated; suites of leading-edge ...
Computer Sciences
Mar 20, 2012
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A team of researchers led by PNNL computational scientist Simone Raugei have revealed new insights about how this complex enzyme does its job, finding that the seemingly wasteful formation of hydrogen has an essential purpose. ...
Materials Science
Jan 7, 2019
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Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have uncovered a molecular game of musical chairs that hurts battery performance.
Nanomaterials
Jul 25, 2019
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Bacteria in groundwater move in surprising ways. They can passively ride flowing groundwater, or they can actively move on their own in what scientists call "run and tumble" behavior. However, most numerical models of bacterial ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 31, 2019
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For wind and sun power to become renewable energy mainstays, the energy they produce intermittently needs to be stored and retrieved efficiently. And that requires storing solar energy in chemical bonds until the energy is ...
Materials Science
Feb 14, 2019
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Scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Rai Enviro-Chem, LLC, recently published first-ever results that illustrate the importance of determining hard-to-find oxidized Fe(III) reaction products in the reduction ...
Materials Science
Jul 15, 2011
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Researchers working within Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's (PNNL's) Separations Science program succeeded in coupling a highly controlled way of modifying surfaces, called ion soft landing, with a PNNL-designed and ...
Nanomaterials
Mar 20, 2019
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Ljiljana Paša-Tolic, better known as Lili, is EMSL's mass spectroscopy capability lead. With a scientific focus in biology, she is particularly interested in the biological applications of mass spectroscopy technology.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 24, 2013
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In areas that flood frequently, microbial communities must adapt to repeated wet-dry cycles. Metabolic strategies help them survive, but these strategies can also influence nutrient cycling and atmospheric emissions from ...
Environment
Aug 16, 2018
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Despite decades of research, how ruminants deconstruct plant biomass in their stomachs is still something of a mystery. Now, an international team of scientists has identified a previously unknown family of bacteria and complex ...
Biotechnology
Mar 27, 2018
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