UPDATE: Suspect found dead. Also from Portugal. Was a physics grad student years ago. Appears responsible for both Brown and MIT shootings. Motive?
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With the terrible attacks on Jews celebrating Hannukah in Australia, students studying at Brown, Rob and Michelle Reiner by their son, and American servicemen in Syria, it is easy to overlook the murder of MIT professor Nuno Loureiro, which remains a mystery.
_Is nuclear fusion a pipe dream?
No motive for the attack is known.  The murderer remains at large.
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Nuno Loureiro was director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center which conducts some of the world’s most cutting-edge fusion energy research and development.
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Investigators must ask: Was this an attack against our energy future?
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MIT photo by Jake Belcher