A version of this article appears in print on Nov. 4, 2022, Section A, Page 27 of the New York edition with the headline: The Sandwich Generation Is Getting Squished.

Kerri Smith talks to diamond-compressor Rip Collins about lasers, giant planets and pineapples. Physicist Rip Collins of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, and his ...

At first, they displayed their squished pennies on the mantel in their old Columbia Heights apartment. (“Look, we have a museum,” Henry stated oh-so-prophetically way back when.) ...