After 7,000 years of "drinking tubes" across many civilizations, two men reinvented the straw in the last 150 years. The first made it modern. The second made it bend. sketch bendy straw.jpg Image ...

There is no wrong way to enjoy a glass of wine. The delicious elixir, however, has long been subjected to rules and social conventions that have ranged from the ridiculous to the sublime. No doubt ...

Materials scientists at the University of Massachusetts have taken a deep look into the properties of a humble object that might be sticking out of your drink right now: the bendable straw. The ...