HOW NIELS BOHR CRACKED THE RARE-EARTH CODE

Rare earths are today steering conversations on EV batteries, wind turbines and cutting-edge defence gear. Yet most readers often confuse what “rare earths” really are. Seventeen little-known elements underwrite the tech that fuels modern life. For decades they mocked chemists, remaining a riddle, until a quantum pioneer named Niels Bohr rew