Where it’s being built.
Silicon Canals covers the global innovation ecosystem city by city. Each city below has a dedicated landing page that surfaces the latest reporting on the people, companies, and institutions building there.
Amsterdam
1,819 articles
Latest: How does a single company in a Dutch town of roughly 48,000 people build the only machines able to print the world’s most advanced chips, with its newest model costing about €350 million?
Bangalore
22 articles
Latest: How did a treaty agreed in 1987 and eventually ratified by every nation shrink a hole in the atmosphere the size of North America back toward 1980 levels?
Barcelona
10 articles
Latest: The Boring Billion is the name geologists give to the stretch between roughly 1.8 and 0.8 billion years ago, when low-oxygen oceans slowed complex life — but evolution did not pause and Earth was not simply a billion years of slime
Berlin
66 articles
Latest: Uber’s $14.8B Delivery Hero bid would take its global platform to 99 markets
Brussels
6 articles
Latest: How does a single company in a Dutch town of roughly 48,000 people build the only machines able to print the world’s most advanced chips, with its newest model costing about €350 million?
Copenhagen
4 articles
Latest: In 1939, a self-taught excavator named Basil Brown was digging a mound on Edith Pretty's estate in Suffolk when his trowel traced the outline of a 27-metre Anglo-Saxon ship whose timber had long since rotted, leaving only iron rivets holding the shape of a vessel in the sand
Dubai
5 articles
Latest: Saudi and UAE sovereign AI plans still rely on Nvidia and US technology
Dublin
14 articles
Latest: How does a single company in a Dutch town of roughly 48,000 people build the only machines able to print the world’s most advanced chips, with its newest model costing about €350 million?
Helsinki
10 articles
Latest: How did a Nordic company that started by making rubber boots and paper pulp become the world's biggest mobile phone maker by 2000, then lose almost all of it inside seven years?
Lagos
11 articles
Latest: Why did an oil-producing country pumping about two million barrels a day make electric cars 96 percent of new sales in 2025 while building the world's largest sovereign wealth fund?
Lisbon
8 articles
Latest: Uber’s $14.8B Delivery Hero bid would take its global platform to 99 markets
London
287 articles
Latest: On May 24, 1844, Samuel Morse sat in the US Capitol and tapped out 'What hath God wrought' to his assistant Alfred Vail 60 kilometres away in Baltimore, a phrase chosen not by Morse but by Annie Ellsworth, the young daughter of a friend, who picked it out of the Book of Numbers and then traced every letter of it on the tape in ink herself
Madrid
11 articles
Latest: Two men are each called the inventor of email: one chose the @ sign between two computers in 1971, the other wrote a program he named EMAIL as a 14-year-old in 1978, and the fight over whose claim counts ended up in a federal courtroom
Munich
41 articles
Latest: How does a single company in a Dutch town of roughly 48,000 people build the only machines able to print the world’s most advanced chips, with its newest model costing about €350 million?
New York
22 articles
Latest: On May 24, 1844, Samuel Morse sat in the US Capitol and tapped out 'What hath God wrought' to his assistant Alfred Vail 60 kilometres away in Baltimore, a phrase chosen not by Morse but by Annie Ellsworth, the young daughter of a friend, who picked it out of the Book of Numbers and then traced every letter of it on the tape in ink herself
Oslo
10 articles
Latest: How did a treaty agreed in 1987 and eventually ratified by every nation shrink a hole in the atmosphere the size of North America back toward 1980 levels?
Paris
51 articles
Latest: In a long-running Berkeley study, researchers found that women who smiled genuinely in their college yearbook photos went on to have more stable marriages and higher wellbeing thirty years later than those whose smiles were posed
Rotterdam
45 articles
Latest: After raising Seed funding, Rotterdam’s Blockrise becomes a Bitcoin-only platform
San Francisco
14 articles
Latest: Nobody is asking why Apple filed its OpenAI trade secrets suit now, weeks before a rumoured public listing — and the answer sits inside a screenless device shaped by the more than 400 ex-Apple hires OpenAI has quietly made
Seoul
9 articles
Latest: In 1911, an Oklahoma auto dealer named Clyde Cessna taught himself to fly by crashing his hand-built monoplane at least thirteen times on the salt flats of northern Oklahoma, because there were no flight schools within reach, no manuals worth trusting, and no one nearby who had flown one and could tell him what he was doing wrong
Singapore
25 articles
Latest: A 2026 study revealed how sperm whales stay suspended during their eerie vertical naps: they blow bubbles to stop their buoyant bodies from rising into the waves
Stockholm
37 articles
Latest: People who prefer walking to talking through a hard conversation aren't avoiding eye contact, side-by-side movement lowers the sense of confrontation enough that things which cannot be said across a table can often be said along a footpath
Sydney
11 articles
Latest: Neurologists increasingly point to ultra-processed foods as the single largest modifiable risk factor for cognitive decline — and the mechanism runs through the gut, not the brain
São Paulo
6 articles
Latest: In 1816, a 35-year-old French physician named René Laennec rolled a sheet of paper into a tube and pressed it against a young woman's chest because he was too embarrassed to put his ear there, and the sound of her heartbeat through the cylinder became the first stethoscope
Tel Aviv
11 articles
Latest: On May 24, 1844, Samuel Morse sat in the US Capitol and tapped out 'What hath God wrought' to his assistant Alfred Vail 60 kilometres away in Baltimore, a phrase chosen not by Morse but by Annie Ellsworth, the young daughter of a friend, who picked it out of the Book of Numbers and then traced every letter of it on the tape in ink herself
Tokyo
18 articles
Latest: ASML in Veldhoven is the only company on Earth that can build extreme ultraviolet lithography machines, and each one contains a mirror so perfectly polished that if you scaled it up to the size of Germany, its tallest bump would be less than a millimetre high
Vienna
7 articles
Latest: How did a treaty agreed in 1987 and eventually ratified by every nation shrink a hole in the atmosphere the size of North America back toward 1980 levels?
Zurich
11 articles
Latest: We tend to picture gold as an Earth metal pulled from mines, but every atom of it, in every wedding ring and central bank vault, was forged in the collision of two neutron stars before the Sun existed and rained onto the young Earth as stellar shrapnel