PNNL in the News
Following are some online news articles regarding research and development at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory that have appeared in the print and electronic media. Many other stories have been published but are not available online or online access is limited to subscribers.
Archives
September 2007
- Electric Cars 2.0, Technology Review (September/October, 2007)
August 2007
- Three Cities, One New High-Tech High School, KEPR-TV (August 23, 2007)
- New math, science high school could become reality, Tri-City Herald (August 23, 2007)
- Expect gridlock along road to renewable energy, Seattle Post-Intelligencer (August 15, 2007)
July 2007
- Learning to live with fossil fuels, The Seattle Times (July 15, 2007)
- Biochemistry: Game of tag, Nature (July 5, 2007) - Subscription Required
- Power plant would bury greenhouse gas, The Seattle Times (July 5, 2007)
- Grid Interop: Closing the "Distance to Integrate", Automated Buildings (July, 2007)
- Listening for a Strange Brew, Technology Review (July, 2007)
June 2007
- Project aims for clean river, Tri-City Herald (June 19, 2007)
- Plastics from Sugar, Technology Review (June 19, 2007)
- The Cure for HPC Neurosis: Multiple, Virtual Personalities!, Scientific Computing (June, 2007)
May 2007
- Fossils helping geologists learn about Ice Age floods, Tri-City Herald (May 29, 2007)
- $1.5 million grant to study climate change, Seattle Post-Intelligencer (May 28, 2007)
- Battle of the bots: Southridge students take on Battelle experts (w/ video), Tri-City Herald (May 24, 2007)
- Fans of plug-in cars build their power base, The Seattle Times (May 9, 2007)
- IPCC Report Lays Out Options for Taming Greenhouse Gases, Science (May 11, 2007) - Subscription Required
- IPCC Report on Climate Change Mitigation / Climate Change as a National Security Issue, NPR Radio (May 4, 2007)
April 2007
- Balancing Computation and Experiment, Innovation (April/May, 2007)
- PNNL boosts safety system with cameras, Tri-City Herald (April 24, 2007)
- We could use more like Len Peters, Tri-City Herald (April 12, 2007)
- Can the world share the burden of climate change?, USA Today (April 8, 2007)
- New partnership will study clean coal, United Press International (April 6, 2007)
- Data storage in a petri dish, ComputerWorld (April 5, 2007)
- Researchers study how to replace petroleum with plant-derived sugar, The Seattle Times (April 2, 2007)
- Hormonal chemicals may be imperiling fish, The Seattle Times (April 1, 2007)
March 2007
- Worlds Of Possibility, Scienceline (March 23, 2007)
- Chemicals to slow creep toward river, Tri-City Herald (March 22, 2007)
- Coalition working to increase state's degrees, Tri-City Herald (March 1, 2007)
- Accounting for climate change, Washington CEO (March, 2007)
February 2007
- Next step cleared for new PNNL lab facility, Tri-City Herald (February 16, 2007)
- Catalyzing the Emergence of a Practical Biorefinery, Science (February 9, 2007) - Subscription Required
- A Sustainable Future, If We Pay Up Front, Science (February 9, 2007) - Subscription Required
- PNNL chemist wins DOE award, Tri-City Herald (February 9, 2007)
- Energy efficiency: Super savers: Meters to manage the future, Nature (February 8, 2007) - Subscription Required
- Box 1. Plug in, turn on...sell out, Nature (February 8, 2007) - Subscription Required
- A climate-change cost analysis, USA Today (February 5, 2007)
- Energy solutions that play to Washington's strengths, The Seattle Times (February 5, 2007)
- Life as we know it gets blame for global warming, The Oregonian (Portland) (February 2, 2007)
January 2007
- Opinion: Battelle's donation shows depth of vision, Tri-City Herald (January 23, 2007)
- Science & Technology Concentrates: Rethinking Zircon For Nuclear Waste, Chemical & Engineering News (January 15, 2007)
- PluggedIn: Smart appliances have minds of their own, Reuters (January 19, 2007)
- Science & Technology Concentrates: Rethinking Zircon For Nuclear Waste, Chemical & Engineering News (January 15, 2007)
- Local Digest: Kennewick - Battelle's $750,000 gift is for education, The Seattle Times (January 15, 2007)
- Battelle's $750,000 gift to help science education in WA, Seattle Post-Intelligencer (January 14, 2007)
- With Plutonium, Even Ceramics May Slump, Science (January 12, 2007)
- Strength of containers holding nuclear waste questioned, Tri-City Herald (January 12, 2007)
- Rapid Spinning of Plutonium Helps Judge the Lifetime of Waste-Storage Materials, Scientific American (January 10, 2007)
- Setback for safe storage of nuclear waste, New Scientist (January 10, 2007)
- Canned nuclear waste cooks its container, Nature (January 10, 2007) - Subscription Required
- Study casts doubt on nuclear waste storage safety, Reuters (January 10, 2007)
- DOE to track uranium plume, Tri-City Herald (January 9, 2007)