While studying legacy contaminated soil samples from the Plutonium Finishing Plant waste crib at the Hanford Site (Richland, WA), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) researchers located and extracted tiny crystals ...
Materials Science
Oct 22, 2020
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Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have increased the conductivity of copper wire by about five percent. That may seem like a small amount but it can make a big difference in motor efficiency. Higher ...
Materials Science
Oct 14, 2020
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Machine learning algorithms, the basis of neural networks, are opening doors to new discoveries—or at least offering tantalizing clues—one massive database at a time. Case in point: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ...
Analytical Chemistry
Oct 14, 2020
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Dust blowing onto high mountains in the western Himalayas is a bigger factor than previously thought in hastening the melting of snow there, researchers show in a study published Oct. 5 in Nature Climate Change.
Earth Sciences
Oct 5, 2020
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Scientists are racing to keep pace with COVID-19, creating new tools to figure out how the novel coronavirus works.
Mathematics
Sep 29, 2020
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Where rivers meet oceans, each cycle of the tide moves water in and out of estuaries. The mixing and mingling of fresh and briny water, combined with seasonal weather, creates a unique environment for ecosystems in coastal ...
Environment
Sep 25, 2020
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Supercooled water is really two liquids in one. That's the conclusion reached by a research team at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory after making the first-ever measurements of liquid ...
General Physics
Sep 17, 2020
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Federal agencies required a minimum criteria of 96 percent of spring-migrating and 93 percent of summer-migrating juvenile salmon had to survive passage over Lower Granite Dam, located in southeastern Washington. Because ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 2, 2020
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Powerful atomic-resolution instruments and techniques at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) are revealing new information about the interaction of uranium dioxide (UO2) with water. These new insights will improve ...
Materials Science
Sep 2, 2020
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Imagine being able to detect the faintest of radionuclide signals from hundreds of miles away.
Earth Sciences
Aug 25, 2020
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