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

MIT physicist Nuno Loureiro, a rising leader in fusion research, was tragically killed in 2025 after groundbreaking work in ...

Superconductivity and magnetism have long been treated as rivals in condensed matter physics, one thriving on perfect ...

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

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

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

A physics professor at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology was shot and killed inside a Brookline home, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Nuno Loureiro led the university’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center and taught in the departments of Nuclear Science and ...

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 ...