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Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics Laboratoire national canadien pour la recherche en physique nucléaire et en physique des particules

Category	Title	Date	Excerpt
Experimental Result	Understanding Helium	05 February 2012	Recent measurements with TRIUMF's TITAN facility, combined with theoretical modeling from TRIUMF's theory group, push back the frontiers of understanding nuclei--starting with the helium family of isotopes.
Experimental Result	Tc-99m Made on Multiple Cyclotrons	20 February 2012	The TRIUMF-led team announced today at the AAAS meeting that they have successfully produced commercial quantities of the critical medical isotope technetium-99m on existing cyclotrons in two provinces.
Experimental Result	New Record in Weighing the W Boson	23 February 2012	Several TRIUMF researchers are involved in Fermilab's CDF experiment which today announced the world's most sensitive measurement of the mass of the W boson.
Experimental Result	Faster-than-light Neutrinos Under Scrutiny	05 March 2012	The controversial results of the faster-than-light neutrino experiment performed at CERN may be due to GPS technical issues.
Experimental Result	Fermilab Narrows in on the Higgs	07 March 2012	Using different search techniques, physicists at Fermilab see hints of Higgs boson sighting consistent with those from LHC.
Experimental Result	Canadian-led Research Zaps Antimatter	07 March 2012	The ALPHA Collaboration released new results today in Nature. They have successfully manipulated antihydrogen atoms with microwaves.
Experimental Result	Daya Bay Collab Measures Neutrinos	07 March 2012	The international Daya Bay Collaboration reports on an elusive neutrino property, confirming and enhancing early results from the Canada/Japan measurements from the T2K collaboration.
Experimental Result	Nature Physics Cover: Novel Acceleration	08 March 2012	TRIUMF accelerator physicists contribute to an advance that made the cover of March 2012 Nature Physics. The breakthrough pertains to a novel acceleration technique.
Experimental Result	Now THAT's Popular	15 March 2012	Under the leadership of UBC professor Anna Celler, TRIUMF's nuclear-medicine team published an article in "Physics in Medicine and Biology" that has become one of the top-read articles.
Student Stories	AAPS Assists Canadian Students	29 March 2012	AAAS 2012 brought thousands of scientists and hundreds of talented high-school students to Vancouver, thanks to generous support from AAPS.