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

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 seem ordinary, but they anchor the technologies we carry daily. Their baffling chemistry had scientists scratching their heads for decades—until Niels Bohr stepped