Feature Articles
Ultrasensitive searches for the axion
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 — Karl van Bibber and Leslie J Rosenberg
Stories from the early days of quantum mechanics
A colloquium delivered to the University of Toronto physics department on 5 April 1979 by the master of molecular beams offers a fresh look at an earlier era — Isidor Isaac Rabi (transcribed and edited by R. Fraser Code)
Improving students' understanding of quantum mechanics
To address the misconceptions that students typically hold concerning quantum mechanics, instructors should couple computer-based visualizations with research-based pedagogical strategies — Chandralekha Singh, Mario Belloni, and Wolfgang Christian
Letters 
Meeting challenges and facing the music in physics education
Women gain ground in academia; science mentors needed
Tough questions about wind energy
Battling the butterfly effect
Nontrivial pursuit of straight talk
Reference Frame
Microscopic irreversibility and chaos — Jerry Gollub and David Pine
Books
A World on Fire: A Heretic, an Aristocrat, and the Race to Discover Oxygen,
J. Jackson (reviewed by J. W. Severinghaus)
Van der Waals Forces: A Handbook forBiologists, Chemists, Engineers, and Physicists,
V. A. Parsegian (reviewed
by W. M. Gelbart)
Worlds of Flow: A History of Hydrodynamics from the Bernoullis to Prandtl,
O. Darrigol (reviewed by J. S. Turner)
Photonic Crystals: Towards Nanoscale Photonic Devices,
J.-M. Lourtioz, H. Benisty, V. Berger, J.-M. Gérard, D. Maystre, and A. Tchelnokov, translated
from French by P.-N. Favennec (reviewed by E. Yablonovitch)
New Books
New Products
Focus on software
We Hear That
AAPT names new head
AAS to hand out DPS awards
Kyoto Prize winners are announced
In Brief
Obituaries
Owen Chamberlain
Yuval Ne'eman
quick study
Hurricanes: Tempests in a greenhouse
— Kerry Emanuel
Back Scatter
The many colors of Saturn
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