HOW NIELS BOHR CRACKED THE RARE-EARTH CODE

Rare earths are today shaping debates on electric vehicles, wind turbines and next-gen defence gear. Yet the public often confuse what “rare earths” actually are. Seventeen little-known elements underwrite the tech that energises modern life. For decades they mocked chemists, remaining a riddle, until a quantum pioneer named Niels Bohr rewro