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Select this Article		Ultrasensitive Searches for the Axion Karl van Bibber and Leslie J Rosenberg


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	+ -	Show Topic The axion is a hypothetical particle with a mass possibly a trillion times lighter than an electron and exceedingly small couplings to ordinary matter. Yet experiments may soon detect its presence, either as dark matter or as a component of solar flux.

Select this Article		Stories From the Early Days of Quantum Mechanics Isidor Isaac Rabi and R. Fraser Code


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Select this Article		Improving Students' Understanding of Quantum Mechanics Chandralekha Singh, Mario Belloni, and Wolfgang Christian


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REFERENCE FRAME

Select this Article		Microscopic Irreversibility and Chaos Jerry Gollub and David Pine


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LETTERS

Select this Article FREE		Meeting Challenges and Facing the Music in Physics Education Robert W. Jones, Sheila Tobias, Robert T. Schumacher, Carl Wieman, and Katherine Perkins


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Select this Article FREE		Women Gain Ground in Academia; Science Mentors Needed Peter Cheung and Gary Stiles


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Select this Article FREE		Tough Questions About Wind Energy Kenneth Perry, Frits de Wette, Terry Goldman, Cristina Archer, and Mark Z. Jacobson


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Select this Article FREE		Battling the Butterfly Effect F. Alex Nava


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Select this Article FREE		Nontrivial Pursuit of Straight Talk Lloyd Kannenberg and Ray Rosich


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SEARCH AND DISCOVERY

Select this Article		Gyromagnetic Ratio of a Lone Trapped Electron is Measured to Better than a Part per Trillion Bertram Schwarzschild


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Select this Article		Flattened Clouds of Ultracold Atoms Display a Topological Phase Transition Charles Day


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Select this Article		Physics Update Harvey Leifert and Phillip F. Schewe


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ISSUES AND EVENTS

Select this Article FREE		Beijing Collider Intensifies Focus on Tau‐charm Physics Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Shanghai Builds Topflight Light Source Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Marburger Says Communications Directive Unnecessary Jim Dawson


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Select this Article		World Regions in Stalemate Over Particle Accelerator Conferences Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Former Bell Labs Research Building Faces Wrecking Ball Karen H. Kaplan


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Select this Article		NASA's Future Workforce a Complex Problem Jim Dawson


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Select this Article		Nakamura Wins Prize for Solid‐state Lighting Karen H. Kaplan


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Select this Article		Goodbye, Bifocals? Toni Feder


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Select this Article		News Notes Toni Feder and Jim Dawson


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Select this Article		Web Watch Charles Day


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BOOKS

Select this Article		A World on Fire: A Heretic, an Aristocrat, and the Race to Discover Oxygen Joe Jackson and John W. Severinghaus, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Van der Waals Forces: A Handbook for Biologists, Chemists, Engineers, and Physicists V. Adrian Parsegian and William M. Gelbart, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Worlds of Flow: A History of Hydrodynamics from the Bernoullis to Prandtl Olivier Darrigol and J. Stewart Turner, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Photonic Crystals: Towards Nanoscale Photonic Devices Jean‐Michel Lourtioz, Henri Benisty, Vincent Berger, Jean‐Michel Gérard, Daniel Maystre, Alexis Tchelnokov, and Eli Yablonovitch, Reviewer


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Select this Article FREE		New Books

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NEW PRODUCTS

Select this Article FREE		Focus on Software Lawrence G. Rubin

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WE HEAR THAT

Select this Article		AAPT Names New Head


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Select this Article		AAS to Hand Out DPS Awards


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Select this Article		Kyoto Prize Winners are Announced


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Select this Article		In Brief

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OBITUARIES

Select this Article FREE		Owen Chamberlain John Jaros, Shoji Nagamiya, and Herbert Steiner


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Select this Article FREE		Yuval Ne'eman Haim Harari


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QUICK STUDY

Select this Article FREE		Hurricanes: Tempests in a Greenhouse Kerry Emanuel


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BACK SCATTER

Select this Article		The Many Colors of Saturn


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