Amy Wu

Jan 16, 2025 | scmp.com | Amy Wu

Frontier Town Gateway, a service centre off a major interstate highway in New York State, is an oasis for travellers seeking a cold drink, a bite to eat and a place to stretch their legs. In the age of electric cars, the Tesla charging stations at the service centre are another draw. These are the only charging stations on the roughly 360km (220-mile) drive between Albany and Montreal in Canada.

Jan 16, 2025 | flipboard.com | Amy Wu

5 hours agoOnly the US, Russia and China have previously docked in space. The expertise is critical for advanced missions. New Delhi, India – India on Thursday morning successfully docked one satellite onto another, joining a small group of elite spacefaring nations to have carried out the complex …

Nov 1, 2024 | scmp.com | Amy Wu

At a recent family gathering, the dinner ended in yet another spirited argument. At the tail end of the meal and away from the gathering, my aunt insisted on paying while my sister and I were adamant that it should be our treat. This was our father’s 77th birthday, not to mention a rare occasion on which family members from two coasts had convened. It ping-ponged back and forth with my aunt thrusting money into my pocket and me fishing it out and chasing after her.

Aug 9, 2024 | scmp.com | Amy Wu

When I was five, my parents bought me a piano. It was a very East Asian thing to do. East Asian parents tend to buy their children either a piano or violin and sign them up for lessons, and for me it was the piano. It was a dark mahogany Baldwin, and a novelty for me to sit on the bench and swing my legs, my feet just grazing the floor. An ingrained memory: my piano teacher looking at me sternly as I started playing a tune I had heard.

May 13, 2024 | nature.com | Amy Wu |Joshua L. Wang |Kenji Watanabe |Takashi Taniguchi |Michael T. Pettes |Chaitanya A. Gadre | +5 more

AbstractConfining materials to two-dimensional forms changes the behaviour of the electrons and enables the creation of new devices. However, most materials are challenging to produce as uniform, thin crystals. Here we present a synthesis approach where thin crystals are grown in a nanoscale mould defined by atomically flat van der Waals (vdW) materials. By heating and compressing bismuth in a vdW mould made of hexagonal boron nitride, we grow ultraflat bismuth crystals less than 10 nm thick.