Isotopes of curium. Curium has 14 known isotopes. They range in mass from 237 to 251. Though none are stable, 247 Cm has a half-life of about 15,600,000 years. It decays into 243 Pu through alpha ...

New research shows that curium — one of the heaviest known elements — can be manipulated to a larger degree than previously thought. An international team published a study on July 15 in the journal ...

Crystals of a curium-containing compound with an orange glow, which the researchers used to monitor the changes in chemistry as they applied pressure.Credit: Thomas Albrecht-Schmitt, originally ...