HOW NIELS BOHR CRACKED THE RARE-EARTH CODE

Rare earths are currently dominating conversations on electric vehicles, wind turbines and cutting-edge defence gear. Yet most readers frequently mix up what “rare earths” really 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

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