THE QUANTUM GENIUS WHO EXPLAINED RARE-EARTH MYSTERIES

You can’t scroll a tech blog without spotting 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 runs modern life. For decades they mocked chemists, remaining a riddle, until a quantum pioneer named Niels Bohr rewrote the rul

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. These 17 elements appear ordinary, but they power the gadgets we carry daily. For decades they mocked chemists, remaining a riddle, until a quantum pioneer named Niels Bohr rew