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Have you ever heard of Kearnsa? It's a grain that you can use to make, among other things,

beard. It's got a little bit different mouth feel, I think, than barley beers, for sure, and and definitely earthy almost nutty. It's Friday

October 18th happy science Friday.

I'm Cyfripere producer Rasha Arredi. The most commonly grown grains in the world are rice,

sweet, corn, soybeans, you know, the staples. But a group of plant scientists are trying to get a

grain called curnsa on the market since it's tasty and growing it has environmental benefits.

We'll get into some Kearnsa science later, but first let's check

in on some science news of the week. Here's Cyfri's John Dancoski.

Big news on the cute animal front.

Yes, this week giant pandas returned to the National Zoo in Washington, D.C.

Here to tell us more about this and some other big science stories from the week is

Sophie Bushwick senior news editor at new scientist Sophie always good to have you

here welcome back thank you okay so tell us more about these pandas who are coming back.

So these are two pandas.

They're Bao Lee and Chingbao and they have arrived at the zoo in Washington, D.C. It's very exciting because this year is the first year in

decades that China has sent pandas to the US. Earlier this year a couple arrived at

the San Diego Zoo and so first of all it's great for people who love

Pandas if you're in the DC area you're going to be able to check the Pandas out starting in January

if you're anywhere you can use the Pandacam at the San Diego Zoo to check those Pandas out.

It's also good for what's called Panda Diplomacy, which is sort of the idea that by sending Pandas to the US US it's a sign of goodwill from China.

Yeah, so yeah actually have a big story about this that we did at the end of last year at

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