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

Rare earths are presently shaping talks on electric vehicles, wind turbines and cutting-edge defence gear. Yet most readers frequently mix up what “rare earths” actually are. Seventeen little-known elements underwrite the tech that runs modern life. For decades they mocked chemists, remaining a riddle, until a quantum pioneer named Niels Boh