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

Rare earths are presently dominating debates on electric vehicles, wind turbines and cutting-edge defence gear. Yet most readers still misunderstand what “rare earths” really are. Seventeen little-known elements underwrite the tech that fuels modern life. For decades they mocked chemists, remaining a riddle, until a quantum pioneer named Nie