Fintech MNT-Halan is planning an initial public offering of its Egyptian business in Cairo as soon as this year, according to people familiar with the matter, the latest firm preparing a share sale in the Middle East’s most populous nation.

Germany’s national rail operator is struggling to restore regular service after a communications system outage apparently caused by a replacement component brought trains to a nationwide standstill late Tuesday.

Nature, Published online: 23 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10799-8

Retraction Note: Sub-second periodicity in a fast radio burst

Researchers at the TechMed Centre of the University of Twente have built a swallowable soft robot that samples stomach fluid

For the first time, scientists have succeeded in artificially mimicking the ion signalling of heart muscle cells. To

Up to 36 per cent of animal habitats on land could be exposed to multiple extreme climate events

This could prevent thousands of hospitalizations.

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Researchers have identified previously unknown materials, including a new form of a widely studied clean-energy material, by carefully

A University of Queensland breakthrough could soon be used to upgrade the world’s most prominent gene-editing technology to

Nature, Published online: 17 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10650-0

Biochemical, structural and cell biological analyses reveal that UAP56 (DDX39B) assembles with a TREX-2–like module that redirects non-functional polyadenylated RNAs from export to degradation.

Safer and more environmentally friendly indoor solar panels could soon help power electronics in homes and offices, thanks

University of Queensland researchers have revealed how a problematic cell protein causes a birth defect in an embryo,

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have demonstrated new experimental capabilities measuring how uranium-bearing molten salts conduct heat

Consuming a plant-based diet may help lower levels of a key marker of inflammation in the body, according

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have shown for the first time that ferroelectricity

One disease is a top concern.

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As temperatures rise, it is the poor who suffer most. The coping strategies of those living in informal settlements may hold lessons for cities of the future.

Nature, Published online: 04 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10694-2

Author Correction: Physiology and immunology of a pig-to-human decedent kidney xenotransplant

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 04 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-02009-x

Tropical forest expansion into previously unforested areas contributes substantially to carbon sequestration, offering an additional pathway for offsetting CO2 emissions and enhancing the resilience of future carbon dynamics.

Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10627-z

Single-cell mapping of cis-expression quantitative trait loci in inflammatory bowel disease revealed distal, enhancer-enriched variants detected at the cell-type level more frequently co-localize with genome-wide association study loci than those identified at the tissue level.