Smaller Canary Islands bet on digital nomads to avoid emptying out
A consultant billing a client in Amsterdam, a project contract with a company in Berlin, a connection steady enough for video calls: that is roughly the profile of digital nomad the Canary Islands government would like to see landing not just in Tenerife or Gran Canaria, but in El Hierro. The plan is not new. […]
Seven new units, a plan through 2032: how mental health care is changing in the Canaries
A day hospital for eating disorders, two home-care units for children and teenagers, a new unit for people living with personality disorders. This isn’t a wish list for some future project. These are seven facilities the Canary Islands government has begun rolling out since early 2026, the first concrete step in a health strategy that […]
Since August, AI-written text carries an invisible signature: what the EU’s new rule changes
Picture a piece of text that, read by a human, looks perfectly natural, but carries, hidden among the words, a statistical signature only specific software can detect. This isn’t science fiction. Since 2 August 2026, it’s what the European Union legally requires of anyone generating content with artificial intelligence within its borders. The obligation comes […]
Less than 1% of Canarian waters are truly protected: the report behind the headline number
On paper, more than a fifth of the sea surrounding the Canary Islands carries some form of legally binding protection. In practice, according to the first scientific study to measure its real effectiveness, less than 1% is under strict protection, and nine out of ten marine protected areas lack active management. That’s the headline finding […]
A robot beat Bolt in the 100 metres, then crashed into a wall: China is racing (literally) toward humanoid robot dominance
Nine point three nine seconds. That’s how long it took a humanoid robot to run the 100 metre dash at the second annual Humanoid Games, the machine-versus-machine sports competition held in Beijing in mid-August 2026, a time that would, on paper, beat Usain Bolt’s human world record. Right after crossing the line, the robot slammed […]
4.851 billion euros and a moratorium on the table: Canary Islands tourism faces its own reflection
One hundred and eighty-one euros a day. That’s what every tourist arriving in the Canary Islands spent on average in the second quarter of 2026, up from 157.9 euros in the same period of 2025. It’s a jump that official figures analysed by the regional press attribute not to more visitors, but to higher-value tourism: […]
1.794 kilowatt-hours per cubic metre: how the Canary Islands landed in the water world record books
In an archipelago with no rivers, where rain is more a date on the calendar than a seasonal certainty, almost every drop of fresh water arrives through an industrial process. It’s against that backdrop, far from trivial, that a piece of news slipped past most people outside technical circles: a Canarian pilot plant now holds […]
Seventeen Companies, Thirteen Billion Dollars: The Private Race for Nuclear Fusion Speeds Up
Inside a warehouse in Massachusetts, engineers at Commonwealth Fusion Systems have spent months fine-tuning superconducting magnets designed to confine plasma hotter than the core of the sun. It’s one of many such sites, scattered across the US and Europe, that now make up what industry watchers are calling a race: the private race for commercial […]
203 companies applied for innovation funding in the Canary Islands. Only 24 got it
Two hundred and three applications, twenty-four funded. That ratio, on its own, says more about the vitality, and the frustration, of the Canary Islands’ innovation ecosystem than any official press release could. The Consejería de Universidades, Ciencia e Innovación y Cultura, through the Agencia Canaria de Investigación, Innovación y Sociedad de la Información (ACIISI), published […]
The Milky Way We Know Exists Because of a Collision Almost 12 Billion Years Ago. Now There’s Proof
Why does the Milky Way have the shape it does? For years, astronomers suspected that a galactic merger in our galaxy’s earliest days had played a decisive role. Now, thanks to new observations from the Hubble Space Telescope, that theory rests on far more solid ground than before. A research team analysed 39 globular clusters, […]