Editor’s note: Mexican talent takes many forms: an inventive approach to everyday products, the expertise to preserve cultural heritage and a young person’s determination to test a new idea.

In this edition, we spotlight a Mexican plastic-free makeup line recognized among TIME’s best inventions of 2026 and a new conservation laboratory in Chiapas helping protect Maya textiles. We also meet a 17-year-old from Tamaulipas taking an experimental sound-based fire extinguisher to an international science fair—a prototype developed to put out small, nearby flames.

Together, these stories celebrate ingenuity across generations, from safeguarding inherited knowledge to imagining new possibilities.

MND Staff

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Mexican plastic-free makeup line named a top invention of 2026 by TIME

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New Chiapas lab repairs and protects Indigenous clothing, helping to preserve a valued tradition

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A Tamaulipas teen built a fire extinguisher that puts out flames using sound

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