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.

A well-known MIT nuclear science professor was shot and killed at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, leaving neighbors, students and colleagues stunned as police search for the person responsible. Authorities confirmed Professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro, 47 ...

Prof. Nuno Filipe Gomes Loureiro was shot multiple times in his own home on December 15, 2025, and died in hospital the following day. His research contributed to the development of nuclear fusion, which could become a carbon-free energy source,

Israeli officials are reportedly investigating any links between Iran and the murder of an MIT nuclear physics professor who specialized in nuclear science, an Israeli newspaper claims. Prof. Nuno Loureiro, 47, was gunned down in his Brookline, MA ...

A prominent nuclear science professor at MIT was shot and killed inside his home in a swanky Massachusetts neighborhood Monday night, with police mum on details of the tragic slaying. Nuno Loureiro, 47, was found inside the Brookline house by police ...

FROM WHERE THIS ALL STARTED AT BROWN UNIVERSITY. NOW WE TURN TO OUR SHARMAN SACCHETTI LIVE ABOUT 50 MILES NORTH IN BROOKLINE, NEAR THE MIT PROFESSOR’S HOME. SHARMAN. AND NEIGHBORS ARE STILL STRUGGLING TO MAKE SENSE OF ALL OF THIS AND WONDERING WHAT WAS ...

The fatal shooting of a world-respected nuclear scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) inside his Brookline home has left police searching for answers and the internet racing ahead with its own. Nuno F. Gomes Loureiro, a 47-year-old ...

The president of Portugal expressed his “profound sorrow” for the death of Nuno F.G. Loureiro, the MIT professor and internationally renowned nuclear physicist, as investigators in Brookline continue to probe the fatal shooting at Loureiro’s home on ...

A world-renowned MIT nuclear science professor who was murdered in his home may have been assassinated by an Iranian operative, Israeli officials said. Married father-of-three Nuno F.G. Loureiro, 47, was gunned down in the leafy Boston suburb of ...