Gene Koonce, owner of VIBE Technologies LLC and creator of the V.I.B.E. (Vibrational Integrated Bio-photonic Energizer), a machine designed to raise a body’s electromagnetic charge to a balance that has ostensible health benefits, has received a warning letter from the Food and Drug Administration. The letter, released April 11 from the administration’s Denver district … [Read more...]

Interek, the international test, evaluation, and consulting firm, has announced a donation in excess of one million RNB (renminbi or people’s money) to support relief efforts for the earthquake victims in Sichuan, China. The monies will be split between UNICEF, the Red Cross, and the Red Crescent. Intertek is matching donations of its employees in more than 110 countries where … [Read more...]

The U.S. Department of Defense has announced the selection of six distinguished university faculty scientists and engineers who will form the first class of the DoD’s new National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellows (NSSEFF) Program. NSSEFF provides grants to top-tier researchers from U.S. universities to conduct, long-term, unclassified basic research of strategic … [Read more...]

A team of scientists from Boston College (BC) and Duke University has developed a highly engineered metametal capable of absorbing all the light that strikes it—to a scientific standard of perfection—they report in Physical Review Letters. The newly developed metametal uses tiny geometric surface features and successfully captures the electric and magnetic properties of a … [Read more...]

A sensor developed at Baylor University could provide diabetics with a less painful way of checking blood sugar levels. This sensor uses electromagnetic waves to measure blood glucose levels in the body. To monitor their blood sugar level, patients must press a thumb against the sensor. As the EM energy goes through the skin and back to the sensor, the glucose level is measured … [Read more...]