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NWPB host Phineas Pope speaks with Doug Ray, a former associate laboratory director at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, to learn more about possible cuts to the lab.

Astronauts and space shuttles constantly are bombarded by radiation. An experiment designed in the Northwest blasted into space today. It’s helping…

(Runtime 1:02)Scientists hope there’s about to be a boost to energy storage. That’s because a new Grid Storage Launchpad officially opened its doors…

(Runtime 1:00)With the climate rapidly changing, researchers are trying to find ways to make clean energy developments less expensive and easier to build.…

(Runtime 1:18)After sixty years of research, researchers finally achieved a scientific milestone through a fusion reaction in California. On December 5,…

BY LAURA SULLIVAN and COURTNEY FLATTWhen a group of engineers and researchers gathered in a warehouse in Mukilteo, Wash., 10 years ago, they knew they…

Some people work their whole life trying to solve one big problem. That was the case with geoscientist John Zachara, who studied Hanford. Correspondent Anna King has this remembrance of the scientist who died recently from a rare form of blood cancer.

Trees have a little secret you might not know about. Yes, they produce oxygen. Yes, they take in carbon dioxide, a heat-trapping greenhouse gas. But, they also emit methane. Methane is a greenhouse gas that can be significantly more potent than carbon dioxide.

As a U.S. Department of Energy plane flew over the Amazon rainforest, it sipped and sampled air in real time. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory scientist Manish Shrivastava sampled the air over the Amazon to come up with a scientifically accurate baseline of pre-industrial air.