“An Irreparable Loss for Science”: A Top MIT Fusion Scientist, Whose Work “Will Change Human History” Was Shot Dead In His Suburban Boston Home, And I’ve Got A Lot Of Questions

POLL TIME – Should I Blog about the ASSASSINATION of the director of MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center? Or should I not?

— Dante (@DanteTheDon)December 18, 2025

AP News – BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — Police intensified their search Wednesday for a suspect in the killing of professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, two days after he was shot to death at his home outside Boston.

Loureiro, a 47-year-old physicist and fusion scientist, was shot Monday night at his apartment in Brookline, Massachusetts. He died at a local hospital on Tuesday, the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office said in a statement.

The prosecutor’s office said the homicide investigation was “active and ongoing” as of early afternoon Wednesday and had no update — earlier they had said no suspects were in custody…

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