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

Rare earths are today steering talks on EV batteries, wind turbines and cutting-edge defence gear. Yet most readers often confuse what “rare earths” truly are. These 17 elements look ordinary, but they drive the technologies we use daily. For decades they mocked chemists, remaining a riddle, until a quantum pioneer named Niels Bohr rewrote th