NIELS BOHR’S HIDDEN ROLE IN DECODING RARE-EARTH ELEMENTS

Rare earths are today shaping conversations on EV batteries, wind turbines and cutting-edge defence gear. Yet many people often confuse what “rare earths” actually are. These 17 elements look ordinary, but they power the devices we hold daily. Their baffling chemistry left scientists scratching their heads for decades—until Niels Bohr entere

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. 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