MACHOs, Unity Session Mark 1995 April Meeting Around 1500 physicists gathered for the 1995 April Meeting in Washington, DC, the most varied of APS meetings because of the number of divisions represented.
Physical Review's Greatest Hits Hans Bethe, a pioneer of nuclear physics, was a featured speaker at the reception celebrating the publication of the Physical Review-The First Hundred Years.
MACHO Project Makes First Detection of Dark Matter in Milky Way An international consortium of scientists has concluded that gravitational microlensing events observed in the Milky Way are related to the influence of MACHOs, and that their measurements of these objects constitute the first definite observation of dark matter.
Neutron Lifetimes Could Yield Insights into "Weak Force" New precision measurements of the neutron lifetime could yield clues about how subatomic particles coalesced into the elements that formed our universe following the Big Bang.
Book Review AIP's Ben Stein reviews "The Third Planet" , by Sally Ride and Tam O'Shaughnessy.
In Brief Concerns are expressed about insufficient participation of the scientific community in the OECD Megascience Forum; The APS Committee on Oversight of Membership Publications has been disbanded; and three APS geographical sections held their spring meetings in April.
Opinion
APS Views Michael Lubell, APS Acting Director of Public Affairs, re-asserts the importance of the physics community's involvement in the public sphere.
Letters Ig Nobel Participants Damage Own Credibility
Teach the Ones You're With Stan Jones, Professor of Physics at the University of Alabama, addresses the perception that students today aren't as prepared as students of 20 years ago.
The Back Page Clinton Administration Priorities Hurt Fundamental Science
