Do weight-loss drugs slow ageing? The makers say yes, outside experts say prove it
“It’s not like we’re going to reverse age by 30 years or something.” Kevin Duffin of Eli Lilly said that, and it is the most sober line in a story that otherwise sounds like a big promise. The promise is this. Novo Nordisk and Lilly, the two biggest makers of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, told the […]
Eólica returns to ITER: two days of live electronic music among Tenerife’s wind turbines
No DJ with a USB stick, at least on paper. Eólica, held on Friday 16 and Saturday 17 October 2026 at ITER, the Technology and Renewable Energy Institute in Granadilla de Abona, is built around electronic music played live: modular synths, drum machines, organic instruments. Diario de Avisos calls the grounds “an immense analogue laboratory”. […]
Hackers trigger defrost cycles and hundreds of French supermarkets lose fresh food
From the street, nothing looks wrong. The lights are on, the tills work, but inside the display cases the temperature climbs. According to The Record, citing French broadcaster BFMTV, that is what happened at hundreds of French supermarkets after a cyberattack overnight on Sunday 11 October 2026. The attackers reportedly triggered the defrost function on […]
What if the hotel buffet leftovers became fuel? The Canaries are trying it with TOURISM2FUEL
An island with millions of visitors produces tonnes of leftovers too: food, cooking oil, organic matter. What happens to it? In the Canaries, one answer under construction is called TOURISM2FUEL. It is one of six projects funded by the regional Ministry of Universities, Science, Innovation and Culture in its 2026 call for research infrastructure and […]
Lease running out? Spain’s new housing decree applies in the Canaries, but many levers sit with the regional government
If your lease ends in 2027, the first question is simple: can I stay? Since 8 October, possibly yes, for up to two more years. With conditions. Royal Decree-Law 29/2026, dated 6 October and published in the BOE on the 7th, creates an extraordinary extension, on the tenant’s request, for main-residence leases ending before 31 […]
Bananas and avocados feel the heat: how Canary farming is trying to adapt
What happens to an island chain that built a good part of its farming on two tropical crops when temperatures keep climbing? That question runs through a University of La Laguna (ULL) study, published in the journal Environmental Development and reported in early August 2026. It was led by Juan Carlos Santamarta Cerezal, professor of […]
Thirty-five startups, 10,000 euros on the table and two sandboxes: what happened in Las Palmas
Out of 35 startups, one comes from Uruguay. It is a small detail that says something about the ambition of Canarias Destino Startup: to be a meeting point between three continents, not just a local fair. The fourth edition ran from 7 to 9 October 2026 at the Palacio de Congresos de Canarias, Auditorio Alfredo […]
What’s left of breakfast ends up in the fields
Picture the bin in a hotel kitchen once breakfast is over: peelings, leftovers, garden prunings. Normally it makes one trip, to a treatment plant. In southern Tenerife, for 39 hotels, the trip ends on a farm. The project is called Comunidades Turísticas Circulares, or Circular Tourist Communities, and began in 2022 on the initiative of […]
Unemployment falls to 140,303, but young people are going the other way
One number in the September jobs data refuses to move with the others: +483. That is how many more under-25s joined the unemployment register, a 6.9% rise in a month when almost everything else was falling. The overall picture is good. According to the Ministry of Labour, as reported by RTVC and Diario de Avisos, […]
The Fodder of the Future Grows in a Shipping Container: How Hydroponics and Automation Are Revolutionizing Livestock Farming
The livestock industry is at a crossroads, caught between the need to produce more for a growing global population and the urgent pressure to reduce its environmental footprint, especially regarding land and water use. A promising solution is emerging from an unexpected field: indoor vertical farming, applied to fodder production. The idea is as simple […]