Plasma, the electrically charged state of matter that lights up stars and neon signs, has just revealed a subtle effect that ...

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

In a tragic turn of events, the scientific community mourns the loss of Nuno Loureiro, a distinguished professor and director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), who passed away at the ...

MIT Professor Nuno Loureiro was shot and killed two days ago. He lead the MIT Plasma Science Department and was working with ...

Producing fusion energy requires heating plasma to more than one hundred million degrees and confining it stably with strong ...

Terahertz (THz) radiation, situated between the microwave and infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, has emerged as a pivotal tool in plasma physics research. The generation of intense, ...

Laser plasma acceleration is a potentially disruptive technology: It could be used to build far more compact accelerators and open up new use cases in fundamental research, industry and health.

The shooting death of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at his home near Boston is being investigated as a homicide, authorities said Tuesday. Nuno Loureiro, 47, from Portugal, was ...

Physicists used a machine-learning method to identify surprising new twists on the non-reciprocal forces governing a many-body system. The journal PNAS published the findings by experimental and ...

Laszlo Horvath, an early career physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) stationed at General Atomics in San Diego, is the winner of the 2022 ...

The fund seeks to enable researchers to make leaps rather than incremental advances in the natural sciences and engineering.

Falmouth resident and Harvard professor Dr. John Holdren was awarded the Karl Taylor Compton Medal for his leadership in science and public policy. CAI's Gilda Geist spoke with Dr. Holdren to learn ...