Nuno Loureiro, a 47-year-old physicist and fusion scientist, was shot Monday night at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Online speculation erupts after MIT nuclear scientist Nuno Loureiro is shot dead at home. Here is what is known, what police say, and why the internet is questioning the timing and motive.

Scientists have expressed their shock and sadness following the death of plasma physicist Nuno Loureiro, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, who was shot at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, on Monday.

Top Portuguese physicist Nuno Loureiro has died after being shot at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, late on Monday night.

Nuno F.G. Loureiro, MIT professor and director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Centre, was shot dead at his Brookline, Boston home. Loureiro, 47, was a native of Portugal who completed his undergraduate studies there,

Let’s start with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility (NIF)—arguably the largest, most established fusion research facility in the world. This year, NIF continued firing its reactor, tweaking even the most minute details of its setup in hopes of the slightest improvement in energy yield efficiency.