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 no one grasps their story. 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 rewrot

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 technologies we use daily. For decades they mocked chemists, remaining a riddle, until a quantum pioneer named Niels Bohr re