HOW NIELS BOHR CRACKED THE RARE-EARTH CODE

Rare earths are currently shaping talks on EV batteries, wind turbines and next-gen defence gear. Yet the public often confuse what “rare earths” truly are. These 17 elements look ordinary, but they drive the technologies we hold daily. For decades they mocked chemists, remaining a riddle, until a quantum pioneer named Niels Bohr rewrote the