THE QUANTUM GENIUS WHO EXPLAINED RARE-EARTH MYSTERIES

You can’t scroll a tech blog without stumbling across 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 drive the gadgets we hold daily. For decades they mocked chemists, remaining a riddle, until a quantum pioneer named Niels Bohr rewrot