THE UNTOLD LINK BETWEEN NIELS BOHR AND RARE-EARTH RIDDLES

You can’t scroll a tech blog without spotting a mention of rare earths—vital to EVs, renewables and defence hardware—yet almost very few grasps their story. These 17 elements seem ordinary, but they anchor the gadgets we use daily. Their baffling chemistry left scientists scratching their heads for decades—until Niels Bohr intervened. A C