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

Rare earths are currently steering talks on EV batteries, wind turbines and cutting-edge defence gear. Yet many people frequently mix up what “rare earths” really are. These 17 elements seem ordinary, but they power the technologies we carry daily. For decades they mocked chemists, remaining a riddle, until a quantum pioneer named Niels Bohr