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

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 ...

MIT professor Nuno F. G. Loureiro, 47, was shot inside his Brookline, Mass., home late Monday and pronounced dead the ...

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 ...

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

A plasma is what you get if you heat matter until it breaks apart into a gas of charged particles. It is, perhaps, the ultimate many-body system, as long-range interactions make possible countless ...

Researchers at The University of Osaka have developed a novel method for generating ultra-high magnetic fields via laser-driven implosions of blade-structured microtubes. This method achieves field ...