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

Claudio Neves Valente’s academic career foundered, while his one-time classmate, Nuno Loureiro, flourished as a physics ...

Nuno F.G. Loureiro — a science, physics and engineering professor who joined MIT in 2016 — was shot multiple times Monday ...

For decades, physicists taught that superconductivity and magnetism could not share the same space. One state should destroy ...

In a first for science, researchers have figured out how to trap tiny electrons in a three-dimensional crystal prison, which might help them make superconductors. The crystal was synthesized by ...

The geometry or shape of a quantum system is mathematically expressed by a tool called the quantum geometric tensor (QGT). It also explains how a quantum system's state changes when we tweak certain ...

MIT researchers have devised a new molecular technique that lets electrons probe inside atomic nuclei, replacing massive particle accelerators with a tabletop setup. By studying radium monofluoride, ...

This is the first article in a two-part series discussing innovative teaching techniques in college physics classes. Today's installment will focus on interactive programs instated at other ...

Entanglement is a form of correlation between quantum objects, such as particles at the atomic scale. This uniquely quantum phenomenon cannot be explained by the laws of classical physics, yet it is ...

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 to the U.S., ...

A physics professor at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology was shot and killed inside a Brookline home, authorities said. Brookline police responded to a report of a man shot at a ...