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 no one grasps their story. These 17 elements look ordinary, but they anchor the gadgets we use daily. Their baffling chemistry left scientists scratching their heads for decades—until Niels Bohr intervened. A Cen