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

Nuno F.G. Loureiro was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who was shot and killed inside his home on ...

MIT professor and plasma physicist Nuno Loureiro was fatally shot in Massachusetts. Here’s what to know about his career and ...

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

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

A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was shot dead at his home near Boston on Monday night, and his death ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...