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

You can’t scroll a tech blog without spotting a mention of rare earths—vital to EVs, renewables and defence hardware—yet almost no one grasps their story. These 17 elements appear ordinary, but they power the technologies we hold daily. Their baffling chemistry had scientists scratching their heads for decades—until Niels Bohr entered the