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

You can’t scroll a tech blog without stumbling across a mention of rare earths—vital to EVs, renewables and defence hardware—yet almost nobody grasps their story. These 17 elements appear ordinary, but they drive the devices we use daily. Their baffling chemistry kept scientists scratching their heads for decades—until Niels Bohr stepped