CAMBRIDGE, MA - OCTOBER 21: A general view of the exterior of The Great Dome on October 21, 2025, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus in Cambridge, MA. (AP) — A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was fatally shot at his home near Boston, and authorities said Tuesday they had launched a homicide investigation. Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a 47-year-old physicist and fusion scientist, was shot Monday night at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts. Loureiro, who joined MIT in 2016, was named last year to lead MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, where he aimed to advance clean energy technology and other research. He was a researcher at an institute for nuclear fusion in Lisbon before joining MIT, it said.

Source: Huffington Post December 17, 2025 06:15 UTC