MIT professor Nuno Loureiro was fatally shot earlier this week. Here’s what to know about his career and research.

His promising work at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center brought him and the lab global recognition as well as the hope ...

Nuno F.G. Loureiro was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who was shot and killed inside his home on Dec. 15. Here's everything to know about MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro and ...

A long-standing fusion challenge may finally be clearer. Scientists uncovered new plasma dynamics that reshape how heat moves ...

MIT physicist Nuno Loureiro, a rising leader in fusion research, was tragically killed in 2025 after groundbreaking work in ...

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory published a new paper last week, marking significant results from the lab’s artificial intelligence research. In the paper, published in Nature Communications, PPPL ...

The intricate dance of atoms fusing and releasing energy has fascinated scientists for decades. Now, human ingenuity and artificial intelligence are coming together at the U.S. Department of Energy’s ...

Dead satellites and other debris are constantly burning up as they fall out of Earth’s orbit. Conventional wisdom is destroying all that space junk is good, because it keeps orbit less cluttered. But ...