This is a southern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina), known for its intelligence and expressive face. These primates live in Southeast Asian forests and are highly social animals. Its curious ...

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A group of scientists from the Kunming Institute of Zoology in China’s southwestern Yunnan province has launched a genetic resource bank for the closest biological model to humans: the macaque. Known ...

Conservation authority the IUCN has upheld the endangered status of the long-tailed macaque after rejecting the U.S. biomedical lobby’s challenge to downgrade it. Demand from research labs has fueled ...

Carey Gallagher began her senior year at Yonkers Middle High School in New York this week alongside 1,438 students, now all required to place their cellphones in a locked magnetic pouch. Yonkers ...

The US Food and Drug Administration is urging nicotine pouch manufacturers to use child-resistant packaging on their products. This comes as a rise in nicotine pouch exposure cases has been reported ...

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David Gomez, a school resource officer for the Boise County Sheriff’s Office in Idaho, started noticing caffeine pouches last spring. Students were using the pillow-shaped pouches, which can contain ...

The rate of the number of young children who accidentally swallow nicotine pouches has soared in recent years, according to a new study. The study, published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, found ...

Poison control centers are sounding the alarm on nicotine pouches as cases of young children accidentally ingesting them surge around the country. The warning comes amid new research showing calls ...

Nicotine pouches are a fast-growing source of nicotine poisoning in young children, according to a new study. Researchers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Ohio analyzed more than a decade’s worth ...

Sarah Todd returned to reporting in January 2025 after being assignment editor at STAT since October 2022. You can reach Sarah on Signal at sarahlizchar.47. Nicotine pouches like Zyn have exploded in ...