The murder of Nuno Loureiro, director of MIT's fusion laboratory, has shocked the scientific world and left an irreparable mark on the progress toward clean energy.
Nuno Loureiro had focused his scientific research on nuclear fusion, working on fusion plasma, a gas necessary for fusion energy. According to MIT, studies like Loureiro's have led to the design of better machines to produce "clean and nearly unlimited fusion energy," bringing it closer to becoming a reality. Learn more about nuclear fusion at this link.
His work centered on a goal that seemed straight out of science fiction: to tame plasma, the matter that fuels stars, and transform it into a clean and inexhaustible source of energy on Earth. (...)