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.

Nuno FG Loureiro was an award-winning professor and lab director at MIT who specialized in nuclear engineering.

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Finals, uncertain future plans, and the general ups and downs of student life can be stessful, but playing with dogs might help relieve some of that tension. Graduate student Stephanie Ku is testing this hypothesis at the MIT Puppy Lab, which is opening ...

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The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

BOSTON (CBS/AP) — Massachusetts public health officials are looking into allegations that workers at a Massachusetts Institute of Technology laboratory may have been exposed to radioactive materials. The state Department of Public Health said in a letter ...

MIT Media Lab, that 30-year-old tech innovation factory that has had a huge hand in churning out everything from LEGO MindStorms to the Guitar Hero video game, has now wowed the open source and free software crowd. Lab Director Joi Ito over the weekend ...