Curium: The Lab-Created Element That Glows

We trace the origin of curium from the 1940s Berkeley labs to its glow in the dark, exploring how it was created by Seaborg, James, and Urso. We dive into its unusual properties, long-lived radioactive isotopes, two crystalline forms, and the challenges of studying it, plus its surprising uses in space exploration via alpha-particle X-ray spectroscopy (APXS).

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