The shooting death of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor at his home near Boston is being investigated as a ...

Nuno F.G. Loureiro was a "brilliant" physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who was shot and killed ...

MIT professor Nuno F. G. Loureiro, 47, was shot inside his Brookline, Mass., home late Monday and pronounced dead the ...

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

For most of the 20th century, physicists largely ignored living systems. They understood living things as machines, albeit ones made of gooey parts. A subfield called biophysics uncovered specific ...

This year, quantum science and computing came up a lot. There have been broad claims that quantum science and engineering ...

Scientists announced on Wednesday that they have found no evidence for the hypothetical “sterile neutrino,” an extra version of the ghostly neutrino particles that are ubiquitous in the universe. The ...

Scientists have now mapped the forces acting inside a proton, showing in unprecedented detail how quarks—the tiny particles within—respond when hit by high-energy photons. The international team ...

Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

In the 1960s, a group of physicists and historians began a massive project meant to catalogue and record the history of quantum physics. It was called Sources for History of Quantum Physics (SHQP). As ...

The knots in your shoelaces are familiar, but can you imagine knots made from light, water, or from the structured fluids ...

The American Institute of Physics has awarded its 2002 Andrew Gemant Award for communicating physics to Michael Riordan, adjunct professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.