THE QUANTUM GENIUS WHO EXPLAINED RARE-EARTH MYSTERIES

Rare earths are currently shaping debates on EV batteries, wind turbines and advanced defence gear. Yet the public still misunderstand what “rare earths” actually are. Seventeen little-known elements underwrite the tech that runs modern life. For decades they mocked chemists, remaining a riddle, until a quantum pioneer named Niels Bohr rewro

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. Their baffling chemistry had scientists scratching their heads for decades—until Niels Bohr entered