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

Rare earths are presently shaping talks on EV batteries, wind turbines and cutting-edge defence gear. Yet many people still misunderstand what “rare earths” actually are. Seventeen little-known elements underwrite the tech that energises modern life. For decades they mocked chemists, remaining a riddle, until a quantum pioneer named Niels Bo