THE UNTOLD LINK BETWEEN NIELS BOHR AND RARE-EARTH RIDDLES

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 anchor the gadgets we carry daily. For decades they mocked chemists, remaining a riddle, until a quantum pioneer named Niels Bohr rewr