It’s been about five months since I set foot in a bar. Like many of you navigating life in a pandemic, I miss bars. I miss the simple pleasure of sharing a beer with friends. And I know I’m not alone.

Silver and gold tubes unearthed in an ancient tomb in southern Russia and long thought to be ceremonial staffs were, in fact, the earliest-known drinking straws, used by people 5,000 years ago to sip ...

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 ...