Workplace wellness programmes have two main goals: improve employees’ health and lower their employers’ healthcare costs. They’re not very good at either, new research finds. For the study, 3,300 employees of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign were given a year of access to iThrive, a workplace wellness programme similar ... Read More »

Scientists have found a way to turn waste byproducts from the olive oil production process into biosurfactants and monoglycerides, molecules immensely useful to the chemical and food industries. Biosurfactants and monoglycerides are surface active agents, or surficants — part oil-soluble component, part water-soluble component. Surficants are used to lower surface ... Read More »