MIT nuclear physicist Nuno F.G. Loureiro was shot at his Brookline home; investigators are searching for the gunman as colleagues and the community mourn.

Lauded theoretical physicist and director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Nuno Loureiro has been murdered at the ...

Neves Valente was found dead inside the storage facility on Thursday, Dec. 18. Authorities said he died from a self-inflicted ...

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

Evgeny P. Velikhov died on December 5, 2024, at the age of 89. He was the most important technical contributor to Mikhail Gorbachev’s successful efforts to end the Soviet-US nuclear arms race and to ...

That all changed on Feb. 11, 1939, with a letter to the editor of Nature – a premier international scientific journal – that described exactly how such a thing could occur and even named it fission.

The time is nigh for nuclear clocks. In a first, scientists have used a tabletop laser to bump an atomic nucleus into a higher energy state. It’s a feat that sets scientists on a path toward creating ...

AMES, Iowa – John Lajoie, surrounded in his office by Star Trek posters and a few space hero action figures, recently made the case for nuclear physics research and the multi-million-dollar ...

Using lasers with precisely tuned frequency, λ, physicists control rotational states of radium monofluoride molecules and excite specific rotational levels, characterized by the quantum number, J.

Helen Jackson, a nuclear physicist with decades of experience and a patent under her belt, was excited about a new job at the U.S. Patent and Trademark office, a ...

Born in Strasbourg, Germany in 1906, Hans Bethe grew up fascinated by the world of physics. After studying at the Goethe University of Frankfurt, Bethe earned his doctorate from the University of ...

For all our telescopes and colliders, dark matter has remained an elusive ghost for the better part of a century. It outweighs everything we see by a factor of five, yet it slips past every detector ...