Nuno F.G. Loureiro was a "brilliant" physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who was shot and killed in his home on Dec. 15 MIT Department of Physics Nuno F.G. Loureiro was a ...

Nuno Loureiro was a physicist who served as the director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center. He also held faculty appointments in MIT’s Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and ...

The two young men were peers, brilliant aspiring scientists working toward a degree at Portugal’s most prestigious engineering school, a white building at the top of a grassy plaza in Lisbon. A ...

For more than 100 years, scientists have debated one of the strangest mysteries in physics: Can two particles far apart somehow “talk” to each other instantly? Albert Einstein didn’t think so. He ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Thirty years ago, Claudio Neves Valente and Nuno F.G. Loureiro were classmates with bright futures. Both excelled in physics and made their way from their home country of Portugal ...