Mining valuable insights from diamonds

If Changhao Li were to trace the origins of his love of nature, he would point to the time when he was 9, observing the night sky from his childhood home in the small town of Jinan, China. “At that moment I felt that nature is so beautiful, I just wanted to go outside the Earth, to go to the moon or even Mars,” Li remembers.That childhood dream seeded his love of physics, which he pursued through middle and high school, and eventually at Xi’an Jiaotong University in China.Li&rs