No cheese is as easily snackable as string cheese, so it's nice to know that it doesn't get its characteristic pull-apart texture from artificial additives. Quite the contrary, the original string ...

I saw a video last year on YouTube where a Russian maker built a rather elaborate rig to turn PET plastic bottles into a flat, very narrow noodle-like “string” that proved to be surprisingly strong.

In a 240,000-square-foot factory an hour east of New York City, several hundred workers buzz from shift to shift making strings for guitars, violins, Greek bouzoukis and Turkish ouds, some 700,000 per ...

It looked like a white splotch on the underside of a Neanderthal stone tool. But a microscope showed it was a bunch of fibers twisted around each other. Further examination revealed it was the first ...