HOW NIELS BOHR CRACKED THE RARE-EARTH CODE

Rare earths are presently shaping talks on EV batteries, wind turbines and advanced defence gear. Yet the public often confuse what “rare earths” truly 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 Bohr rewrote the