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 very few grasps their story. These 17 elements look ordinary, but they drive the technologies we carry daily. Their baffling chemistry kept scientists scratching their heads for decades—until Niels Bohr intervene