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Researchers have developed a polymer structure shaped like a "Chinese lantern" that can quickly change into more than a dozen curved, three-dimensional forms when it is compressed or twisted.

Yet “Venetian Vespers,” for all its moodiness, is elegantly compressed—the central drama occupies only a few days—and the conspiracy at its core is convincingly tawdry.

These appeals add significantly to the court’s workload and require it to consider thorny legal issues on compressed time frames, with minimal legal briefing.

Thanks to AI, the process of identifying and developing new drugs, once a decadelong slog, is being compressed into months.

Entire cities have been lost, “the land beneath them compressed and lowered, so they did not drain, but persisted like glacial lakes.”