HOW NIELS BOHR CRACKED THE RARE-EARTH CODE

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 devices we hold daily. For decades they mocked chemists, remaining a riddle, until a quantum pioneer named Niels Bohr rewrote the ru