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

Rare earths are currently shaping debates on electric vehicles, wind turbines and next-gen defence gear. Yet the public frequently mix up 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