Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) first entered the medical lexicon in 1988 to describe a cluster of symptoms without an obvious cause that doctors were seeing in the Lake Tahoe area of Nevada. The principal symptom was debilitating tiredness, but people also complained of sore throats, headaches, muscle pain and various other manifestations of general malaise. …
11 ships will be handed over to the Russian Navy after repairs and one vessel will be the fourth Varshavyanka class submarine that should be handed over to the military by the end of the year. Russia’s shipbuilding industry is not in good shape, as the delays in refitting the Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier as …
HMS Queen Elizabeth’s huge diesel generators have been powered up for the first time at the home of the UK’s aircraft carrier programme in Rosyth. The move brings the 65,000-tonne future flagship of the Royal Navy closer to becoming an operational warship. The first of the ship’s four generators was officially started by defence procurement …
Tesla Motors is on track for initial lithium-ion battery production at the Gigafactory by the end of 2015 and significant production for existing Tesla models in 2016. Of course, Tesla intends to get production up to 500,000 battery packs a year by 2020, but it is going to complete the Gigafactory and ramp up production …
Apple will likely begin mass production of its next iPhone (iPhone 6S and 6S Plus) in July according to a report from Bloomberg. The future iPhone will come with a touch technology called Force Touch. Force Touch — which senses how hard the screen is tapped — was first used in the Apple Watch and …
New Horizons scientists combined the latest black and white map of Pluto’s surface features (left) with a map of the planet’s colors (right) to produce a detailed color portrait of the planet’s northern hemisphere (center). (Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI) What color is Pluto? The answer, revealed in the first maps made from New Horizons data, turns out …
The US is depending upon Russia for the resupply of the International Space station with the failed Spacex launch and the apparent likely success of the Russian Progress launch. Carrying more than 6,100 pounds of food, fuel, and supplies for the International Space Station crew, the unpiloted ISS Progress 60 cargo craft launched at 12:55 …
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs indicates that today’s global security environment is the most unpredictable than he has seen in 40 years of service. Since the last National Military Strategy was published in 2011, global disorder has significantly increased while some of our comparative military advantage has begun to erode. The US now faces …
The closest-ever pictures of Pluto and its moon Charon shows two separate hemispheres in color. There are unknown dark spots that look like pepperoni slices. New Horizons is now less than 9.5 million miles (15 million kilometers) from the Pluto system. The spacecraft is healthy and all systems are operating normally. On May 15, 2015, …
There were about 1000 German U-boats built over the course of World War 2. The main German sub was the Type 7C which was about 800 tons and 67 meters (220 feet) long. Currently the USA has about 55 nuclear submarines that cost about $1-3 billion each. On average the cost of each submarine is …