THE UNTOLD LINK BETWEEN NIELS BOHR AND RARE-EARTH RIDDLES

You can’t scroll a tech blog without bumping into a mention of rare earths—vital to EVs, renewables and defence hardware—yet almost nobody grasps their story. These 17 elements look ordinary, but they power the technologies we carry daily. For decades they mocked chemists, remaining a riddle, until a quantum pioneer named Niels Bohr rewrot