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 nobody grasps their story. These 17 elements seem ordinary, but they power the gadgets we hold daily. For decades they mocked chemists, remaining a riddle, until a quantum pioneer named Niels Bohr rewrote