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

Plasma has long been treated as an exotic laboratory curiosity, yet a new world-first result is forcing scientists to look at ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

When the plasma physics community gathers for its biggest annual event, the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) shows up in force. This year's ...

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

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 ...