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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>New coating protects steel and superalloys</title>
<link>http://www.pnl.gov/news/release.asp?id=148</link>
<description><p>Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a new ceramic-based coating for steel and superalloys that prevents corrosion, oxidation, carburization and sulfidation that commonly occur in gas, liquid, steam and other hostile environments.</p></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2006 15:38:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Grand challenges, national lab-style</title>
<link>http://www.pnl.gov/news/release.asp?id=140</link>
<description><p>The W.R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL), a Department of Energy-sponsored national scientific user facility, is seeing early promise from its two scientific "grand challenges" that have been investigating enigmas in microbiology and biogeochemistry. </p></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2006 09:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>New nano-canary in the nanotoxicology coalmine: the body itself</title>
<link>http://www.pnl.gov/news/release.asp?id=139</link>
<description><p>There is growing consensus among scientists, regulators, politicians, industry and the public that we need to know more about the possible harmful or adverse effects of nanoparticles on human health. </p></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2006 09:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Legendary mathematician joins national laboratory</title>
<link>http://www.pnl.gov/news/release.asp?id=141</link>
<description><p>One of the world's most influential mathematicians, Benoit Mandelbrot, has joined the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. </p></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>PNNL recognized for commercializing technology</title>
<link>http://www.pnl.gov/news/release.asp?id=142</link>
<description><p>The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been recognized for transferring technologies that treat and cure cancer, uniquely analyze massive sets of data, neutralize toxic chemicals from the environment and increase surgical implant success rates. </p></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:38:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Haze dynasty</title>
<link>http://www.pnl.gov/news/release.asp?id=120</link>
<description><p>China has darkened over the past half-century. Where has all the sunshine gone? The usual suspect, at least to a climatologist, would be cloud cover.</p></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:02:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>PNNL awards contracts to four universities for homeland security work</title>
<link>http://www.pnl.gov/news/release.asp?id=119</link>
<description><p>Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has awarded contracts to four university teams to support the Department of Homeland Security's mission with the <a href="http://nvac.pnl.gov/">National Visualization and Analytics Center</a>. These contracts will establish regional visualization centers and will bring academic expertise to the nation's efforts to discover information that may warn officials of a terrorist attack before it can be carried out.</p></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:53:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Environmental technologies earn award for PNNL</title>
<link>http://www.pnl.gov/news/release.asp?id=23</link>
<description><p>Three water-related research developments have earned the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory a Technology Merit Award in the 2005 Business Achievement Awards competition sponsored by the Environmental Business Journal.</p></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:52:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Unveils GridWise™ Initiative to Test New Electric Grid Technologies</title>
<link>http://www.pnl.gov/news/release.asp?id=118</link>
<description><p>Pacific Northwest National Laboratory announced today the launch of the Pacific Northwest GridWise&#153;; Demonstration projects, a regional initiative to test and speed adoption of new smart grid technologies that can make the power grid more resilient and efficient.</p></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2006 11:59:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Five PNNL researchers elected Fellows by AAAS</title>
<link>http://www.pnl.gov/news/release.asp?id=109</link>
<description><p>Five scientists from the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have been elected Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.</p></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2005 11:42:00 GMT</pubDate>
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