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

Rare earths are today dominating debates on electric vehicles, wind turbines and cutting-edge defence gear. Yet most readers still misunderstand what “rare earths” really are. These 17 elements seem ordinary, but they drive the technologies we use daily. For decades they mocked chemists, remaining a riddle, until a quantum pioneer named Niels

You can’t scroll a tech blog without stumbling across a mention of rare earths—vital to EVs, renewables and defence hardware—yet almost no one grasps their story. These 17 elements look ordinary, but they anchor the devices we carry daily. For decades they mocked chemists, remaining a riddle, until a quantum pioneer named Niels Bohr rewrot