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 ...

Washington D.C. [USA], Oct 21 (ANI): While bendable drinking straws, medical tubes, and collapsible dog bowls all work on a common principle, the fundamental mechanisms of how they work have, until ...

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 ...

Collapsible dog bowls and bendable straws seem to work on a common principle, snapping into stable and useful states, but mechanisms have remained elusive. Now a team led by polymer scientists discuss ...

From the outside, there's not a lot to distinguish Friend's House from the many restaurants lining Convoy Street. It sits at the end of a shopping center, touting photos of dinner specials on a poorly ...

It is one of the greatest love stories ever told. An intergenerational romance. A marriage across an ocean. A match made in laboratories. Straws have been around since people realized they could suck ...