Virtual Pressroom 2025

67th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics

November 17-21, 2025 | Long Beach, California USA

The American Physical Society (APS) is a nonprofit membership organization working to advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics through its outstanding research journals, scientific meetings, and education, outreach, advocacy, and international activities. APS represents over 55,000 members, including physicists in academia, national laboratories, and industry in the United States and throughout the world.

The Virtual Pressroom offers news, highlighted papers, images, and videos from the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics Meetings.

Plasma Science Takes Over Long Beach!

Press Releases

Scientists Double Fuel Density by Inverting Fusion Plasmas
New approach could provide a path to more powerful fusion power plants.

Seeing through the Gaps: AI-Supplemented Measurement in Fusion Devices and Beyond
Machine learning model uses data from a suite of sensors to reconstruct missing information and enhance plasma behavior monitoring.

Scientists Pioneer New “Helicon” Method of Driving Electrical Currents in Tokamak Plasmas for Fusion Energy Production
Helicon current could represent path to fusion power plants.

Fusion Power Plants and Geomagnetic Storms Share an Intriguing Secret
Scientists find striking similarities in the way plasma electrons interact with twisty magnetic fields inside fusion energy devices and in the Earth’s magnetosphere.

First Plasma in Revolutionary "Junior" Levitated Dipole Fusion Experiment
New Zealand based OpenStar Technologies achieved a key milestone for under $10 million USD in less than two years with the levitated dipole approach to plasma confinement.

No Guesswork: Realistic Fusion Simulations Assist in Power Plant Design
Accurately predicting fusion power plant performance can potentially save billions of dollars and accelerate the path to clean energy.

Lighting a Star on Earth—Again and Again
LLNL researchers advance understanding of fusion ignition through new high-energy experiments.

Space Weather’s ‘Secret Sauce’ for Magnetic Reconnection Revealed
New insights into electric fields in space could improve predictions of disruptive space weather.

TAE Technologies Demonstrates First Field-Reversed Configuration Plasma Formed by Neutral Beam Injection
Breakthrough creates a simpler, more cost-effective path toward first commercial hydrogen-boron fusion power plant.

To Understand the ‘Forest,’ You Need to See the Subatomic Particles
Directly measuring the velocity and position of electrons and ions in a plasma has provided new insight into how they gain energy.

The Past Can Enable the Future: Fusion History Lessons for Today
Fusion is accelerating. More than ever, looking back at our history is key to accelerating our future — fusion energy for humankind.

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