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

News of Nuno Loureiro's shocking death has rippled through the ranks of academia, where colleagues say he made strides to ...

Nuno F. G. Loureiro, 47, director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, was pronounced dead after a late-night shooting ...

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

The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), roughly 4 miles out from campus, is a national lab run by the Department of Energy and yet remains a relatively elusive branch of Princeton’s research ...

Nuno Loureiro, professor of nuclear science and engineering and physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and ...

Just as in-flight turbulence—irregular disruptions in the airflow—results in a bumpy plane ride, plasma turbulence transports ...

Most of the energy from the sun and other stars comes from a chain of nuclear fusion reactions. The end of this chain is marked by the fusion of protons with beryllium-7 to form boron-8. This process ...

Nuno Loureiro, a leading MIT fusion scientist, was fatally shot at his home on Monday night amid ongoing concerns over gun ...

Researchers discovered heat in fusion reactors doesn't diffuse slowly—it executes an American football-style "long pass." ...

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 ...