Washington (ANTARA News/Reuters) - Diet soda may benefit the waistline, but people who drink it everyday may have a heightened risk of heart attack and stroke, according to a new U.S. study.
Although the researchers, whose work appeared in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, found that ...
Houston (ANTARA News/Xinhua-OANA) - Damage done to the brain by Alzheimer`s disease may spread like an infection, from brain cell to brain cell, according to a new study by U.S. researchers on Wednesday.
Viruses and bacteria cause infections, and Alzheimer`s is neither viral nor bacterial. But ...
<img src="http://img.antaranews.com/new/2011/10/thumb/2011103188.jpg" align="left" border="0">Singapore (ANTARA News/Xinhua-OANA) - About two in five people aged between 21 and 39 in Singapore said they were not mentally ready for babies, a latest survey has found.
The survey by voluntary welfare organization I Love Children showed that mental readiness was the second most cited ...
<img src="http://img.antaranews.com/new/2011/06/thumb/20110628122617cyberattack.jpg" align="left" border="0">San Francisco (ANTARA Neww/Xinhua-OANA) - Hacker group Anonymous on Friday released a recording of a confidential conference call between the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and British law enforcement officers on cybercrime investigations.
According to the 17-minute conversation ...
The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Rajasthan, which has gained fame for manufacturing the least expensive tablet computers in the world at a price of only 35 US dollars per unit, announced it will assist Indonesia in manufacturing low-priced tablet computers.
According to a press ...
Washington (ANTARA News/Xinhua-OANA) - Scientists at the San Francisco-based Gladstone Institutes, an independent and nonprofit biomedical-research organization, have identified a protein that exacerbates symptoms of Parkinson`s disease.
It is a discovery that could one day lead to new ...
National vaccine manufacturer PT Bio Farma here on Wednesday received the prototype of an Avian Influenza (AI) vaccine developed by University of Indonesia (UI) researchers.
<img src="http://img.antaranews.com/new/2012/01/thumb/20120112cyber-city-2.jpg" align="left" border="0">Beijing (ANTARA News/Reuters) - China will expand real-name registration for microblog users, the government`s propaganda and information arm said on Wednesday, in its latest step to better control China`s wildly popular Twitter-like websites.
Officials acknowledge that microblogs are useful ...
New York (ANTARA News/Reuters) - One in five adults in the United States, or nearly 50 million people, suffered mental illnesses in the past year with women and young adults suffering disproportionately, a government report released on Thursday found.
The survey by the Substance Abuse and ...
<img src="http://img.antaranews.com/new/2012/01/thumb/20120105Phobos-Grunt.jpg" align="left" border="0">Moscow (ANTARA News/RIA Novosti) - A powerful electromagnetic emission from a U.S. radar in the Pacific could have caused the malfunctioning of the Russian Phobos-Grunt probe, the Kommersant daily said on Tuesday.
A Russian government investigation commission is considering several causes of ...
<img src="http://img.antaranews.com/new/2011/02/thumb/20110225120952menlh.jpg" align="left" border="0">The industrial sector in Indonesia is still relying on foreign technology, State Minister for Research and Technology Gusti Muhammad Hatta said here on Tuesday.
HONG KONG (ANTARA News/Yonhap) - The world`s personal computer (PC) market is expected to expand 4 percent in 2012, up from the estimated 0.5 percent growth reached last year, largely due to more global demand for laptops, a report showed Monday.
Mirae Asset Securities Co. released a report, ...
<img src="http://img.antaranews.com/new/2011/11/thumb/20111114qw62.jpg" align="left" border="0">Paris (ANTARA News/Reuters) - Competitive swimmers who train at indoor chlorinated swimming pools may have lung changes similar
to those seen in people with mild asthma, according to an international study, although there is no evidence those changes lead to actual asthma.
To obtain findings ...
<img src="http://img.antaranews.com/new/2012/01/thumb/20120112N-219.jpg" align="left" border="0">Bandung, W Java (ANTARA New) - Aircraft manufacturer PT Dirgantara Indonesia (PTDI) is to build 15 N-219 airplanes for service on so-called "pioneer" routes in Papua province, a company official said here on Thursday.
"Work to construct the N-219 planes has already started with a prototypes ...
<img src="http://img.antaranews.com/new/2011/11/thumb/20111109p16.jpg" align="left" border="0">Moskow (ANTARA News/RIA Novosti-OANA) - Phobos Grunt sebagai misi angkasa contoh yang gagal oleh Rusia ke satelit planet Mars diluncurkan, kendati ilmuwan Rusia memahami risikonya, kata Kepala Badan Antariksa Rusia (Roscosmos), Vladimir Popovkin, Selasa.
Phobos-Grunt adalah misi angkasa besar ...
<img src="http://img.antaranews.com/new/2012/01/thumb/20120105Phobos-Grunt.jpg" align="left" border="0">Indonesian astronomer Ma`rufin Sudibyo has warned the Indonesian public about a possible hazards from debris of Russia`s Phobos-Grunt satellite falling on Indonesia between January 9 and 20.
Hanoi (ANTARA News/AFP) - A man left unable to walk by a tumour on his right leg that weighs more than the rest of his body went under the knife in Vietnam on Thursday to have the growth removed, hospital officials said.
Nguyen Duy Hai`s massive 90 kilogramme (198 pounds) tumour is to be cut ...
Washington (ANTARA News/AFP) - People who eat too much of a high-calorie, low-protein diet tend to gain more body fat than people who overeat high amounts of protein, US researchers said Tuesday.
A study published in the January 4 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association ...
