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Thursday, October 8, 2026

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Margaret Hamilton seated inside the Apollo Command Module reaching up to a control panel

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Margaret Hamilton, who led the software that landed Apollo 11, dies at 90

MIT said the computer scientist who helped turn software engineering into a discipline died on September 30 at the age of 90.

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Tuesday, October 6, 2026

The IceCube Laboratory at the South Pole under the Milky Way at dawn

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Francis Halzen wins the physics Nobel for catching neutrinos in Antarctic ice

Monday, October 5, 2026

Inscribed stone columns of the temple at Abydos, Egypt, in a 19th-century photograph

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Forensics suggests Egypt's first kings had their servants killed

Saturday, October 3, 2026

A Delta IV Heavy rocket lifting off at night carrying a Defense Support Program early warning satellite

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Space Force retires the satellites that watched for nuclear launches

Friday, October 2, 2026

A SpaceX rocket standing on its launch pad at sunset

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SpaceX Crew-13 reaches the space station in 7 hours and 55 minutes

Thursday, October 1, 2026

A bunch of ripe yellow bananas with brown spots resting on an orange against a blue-gray background

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Gene-edited bananas that resist browning clear a UK approval hurdle

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