Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Commander in Chief is fed up with paper straws and doing something about it. On February 7, the President of the United States ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of ancient people drinking beer from a communal vessel with long straws.Kelvin Wilson/Courtesy of Antiquity ...

Today, a straw made of precious metal like silver or gold might seem like an extravagance. But really, if you sipped out of one, you’d be paying homage to our oldest known straws. Recently, scientists ...

“Eco-friendly” paper drinking straws contain long-lasting and potentially toxic chemicals, a new study has concluded. In the first analysis of its kind in Europe, and only the second in the world, ...