HOW NIELS BOHR CRACKED THE RARE-EARTH CODE

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