Harvard’s George Whitesides and Alex Nemiroski, a former postdoctoral fellow in Whitesides’ Harvard lab, have created a type of semi-soft robot capable of standing and walking. The team also created a ...

Light as a feather and seemingly ubiquitous, plastic drinking straws tip the scales as environmental villains—clogging ...

Since Seattle’s plastic straw ban has taken effect, an array of biodegradable straws has hit restaurants, bars and cafés — some decent and some that dissolve almost the instant they come in contact ...

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Feb 11 - President Donald Trump in a new executive order inked on Monday encouraged the U.S. government and consumers to purchase plastic drinking straws at a time when several countries have issued a ...

Those little plastic straws that you get at virtually every restaurant in America have become a huge problem for the world's oceans and Starbucks is finally doing something about it. The global ...

President Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from a perhaps unlikely merchandise offer: reusable plastic straws. The recyclable straws have generated at least ...