From the time of Hernando Cortez's conquest until 1821, Mexico was a colony of Spain. Mexico fought for and gained its independence in the early 1800s. On Sept. 16, 1810, in the town of Dolores Hidalgo, the priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla rang his church's bells and exorted the local Indians to "r...

Mexico's state-owned oil company said Friday it suffered a rupture in an undersea gas pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico, sending flames boiling to the surface in the Gulf waters.

All voices and lyrics by Daniel Emmet. Goodbye Corona - an opera for hope in 2021 to return back to normality.

On Monday, scientists announced the first-ever observation of a cosmic event using both gravitational wave detectors and conventional telescopes. They witnessed a kilonova, a violent, brilliant explosion that occurs when two neutron stars collide. The discovery was a massive undertaking. Thousands o...

Vortex is a new paradigm in renewable energy with wind generators which need no blades. ``The design of Vortex's generators offers a potentially revolutionary shift from today's traditional designs, blades and all.

A whale lunge feeding right next to the Kayak, plus some underwater footage. While the lunge feed was heart pounding excitement while kayaking next to the blue whales in Redondo Beach California. It was relaxing and peaceful.

In developing countries, access to public utilities like running water and sewer systems are often not available. The lack of those resources leads to unsanitary conditions that can put people's lives at risk. Researchers at Cranfield University hope to put an end to that with the waterless Nano Mem...

As of September 21, 2017, the death toll from the massive earthquake in Mexico is rising, but there are glimmers of hope amid the devastation: More survivors are being pulled from the rubble nearly two days after the quake struck. NBC’s Miguel Almaguer reports for TODAY from Mexico City.

The disappearance of the Mayan Empire is all the more mysterious because it happened not once, but twice. The earliest civilization that took root during the heart of antiquity prospered for hundreds upon hundreds of years, with innovations that rivaled those of Egypt. Unlike the Egyptians and Mesop...

The first known incidents of the Ebola virus were in 1976. There were two simultaneous outbreaks in Nzara in Sudan and Yambuku in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo). The name of the Ebola river near Yambuku was given to the new epidemic.

Outbreaks have mainly occured in remote villages ...