The still-unsolved shooting death​ of MIT professor Nuno Loureiro​ this week has sent shockwaves through the campus.

A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was fatally shot at his home near Boston, and authorities said Tuesday they had launched a homicide investigation.

For generations, adults with amblyopia were told their vision loss was permanent, a childhood problem that medicine could not meaningfully reverse later in life. A new wave of research from MIT and collaborating institutions is now challenging that assumption,

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 pronounced dead Tuesday morning after he was found mortally wounded at his Brookline home Monday night.

Loureiro's colleagues in Cambridge and beyond are reflecting on his legacy in physics, teaching, and research leadership.

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The crazed gunman who killed two students and wounded nine others at Brown University before murdering a top MIT professor, went back to Portugal for close to two decades after a disappointing