An MIT professor was fatally shot at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts. Authorities have opened a homicide investigation into the killing of 47-year-old Nuno Loureiro, who was the director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center. In January, President Biden had awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers to Loureiro.

Dec 15, 2025

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