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Community members and friends alike remain stunned days after Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a nuclear physicist, was shot and killed at his home in Brookline, ...

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The nucleus of an atom is now the modern version of sand flowing through an hourglass. Researchers have spent 15 years trying to increase accuracy in timekeeping. The U.S. standard currently relies on ...

AMES, Iowa – John Lajoie, surrounded in his office by Star Trek posters and a few space hero action figures, recently made the case for nuclear physics research and the multi-million-dollar ...