NIELS BOHR’S HIDDEN ROLE IN DECODING RARE-EARTH ELEMENTS

Rare earths are currently shaping talks on EV batteries, wind turbines and cutting-edge defence gear. Yet many people frequently mix up what “rare earths” truly are. Seventeen little-known elements underwrite the tech that fuels modern life. For decades they mocked chemists, remaining a riddle, until a quantum pioneer named Niels Bohr rewrot