Using a particle accelerator, he demonstrated that cosmic rays colliding with molecules in the atmosphere can, in fact, cause gaseous water vapor to condense into cloud-forming droplets.

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The Met Office didn't say that, but often complex messages get distorted when journalists, or indeed scientists, try to condense them into a handful of words.

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Then at the end of the semester, I would condense those summaries into a smaller document.

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To condense his subject into manageable chunks, Mr Winchester uses Shakespeare's seven ages of man as a structure: the infant is a metaphor for man's first interest in the ocean, the schoolboy represents its exploration, and so on.

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There are now several programs that condense the four years into 36 months, Owen says.

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Time-lapse camera technology allowed the filmmakers to condense a year's worth of seasonal changes into a seamless 30-second shot.

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But occasionally, the result is more like The High Strung on "Gravedigger, " which seems to condense the entirety of The Who's Meaty Beaty Big And Bouncy into a single song.

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