image: Today many agricultural plants are grown using hydroponics, i.e. in artificial soilless environments. The source of nutrients for the plants is a special substrate surrounding their roots.

IT is a remarkable fact that in spite of the keen interest displayed in selenium ever since the discovery of its response to light fifty-eight years ago, no complete treatise on its properties has ...

Whereas structural and vibrational properties of crystalline materials can be measured in great detail by various techniques, properties of amorphous materials are much harder to resolve. For this and ...

MOSCOW, 1 November. /TASS/. Researchers from the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (IKBFU) as part of an international group have discovered that the use of selenium in cultivating sage ...