experts at the university of surrey found that testing bacteria in the digestive system helps to showerform. 0ur science correspondent victoria gill explains. atjust a few months old, these thoroughbred foals are neverfarfrom mum, although they're very curious about the world. and at this stables in surrey, young racehorses have been involved in a scientific study that's revealed clues about whether they'll be a future winner. this little nibbly one is just four months old, but she's basically an athlete in training. and what this research has shown is that even at one month old, her future success can actually be seen inside her body, in her gut. the scientists just need a small sample from the stable. it's as simple as that. all we need for the tests that we're going to do are a faecal sample from the foal. in this container are all the microbes or bacteria that live in a young racehorse's gut. the researchers used a dna test to reveal all the different kinds of bacteria. they regularly took and tested faecal samples from 52 horses over the first three years of the animals' lives. t

mark shanahan, is associate professor of politics, at the university of surrey. r tim walz�*s speech at the democratic national convention. i think this is what the democrats were aiming for. they want to build this picture of authenticity. this is a guy who can connect withjoe and jess america, who can really make the republicans look, as he said himself, weird. that donald trump and jd vance, for all they have a high—powered publicity vehicle, they haven't got the same degree of authenticity that walz is hoping to bring to the democratic ticket. he did it pretty well last night. he did his big life story piece. it went down fantastically well with the crowd. but there again, it would. they are democrat activists. this is highly choreographed convention. i think the republicans wanted it to be a wake. it is turning out to be a carnival. last night, tim walz turned out to be a pretty good ringmaster. he is meant to appeal to those mid—western voters. i wonder, though, if you could remind us how much vp candidates typically move the dial when it comes to these elec

doctor mark shanahan is an associate professor of us presidential politics at the university of surrey for a while in the narrative that donald trump was actually running scared of a second debate. of course, he had a terrific first debate againstjoe biden, which ensured that biden dropped out of the presidential race. but kamala harris is a very different candidate. and there was the sense that trump wanted to avoid a face to face confrontation with her. now, obviously, she stood up this week and said, come on, talk to my face. and he seems to have responded, but he's managed to get his network to run it. fox, which is much more sympathetic to him, and he's changed the date as well, bringing it forward from, i think it was originally the 10th of september to almost a week earlier, just before, in fact, the first polls open for postal votes for americans. interesting. and we've got used to, over the years paying a lot of attention to the debates, but also commentators coming on and saying, well, actually they don't move the dial that much. they're not that significant. you can't really

veterinary scientists at the university of surrey in england have discovered that by testing bacteriam on the track. our science correspondent victoria gill explains. atjust a few months old, these thoroughbred foals are neverfarfrom mum, although they're very curious about the world. and at this stables in surrey, young racehorses have been involved in a scientific study that's revealed clues about whether they'll be a future winner. this little nibbly one is just four months old, but she's basically an athlete in training. and what this research has shown is that even at one month old, her future success can actually be seen inside her body, in her gut. the scientists just need a small sample from the stable. it's as simple as that. all we need for the tests that we're going to do are a faecal sample from the foal. in this container are all the microbes or bacteria that live in a young racehorse's gut. the researchers used a dna test to reveal all the different kinds of bacteria. they regularly took and tested faecal samples from 52 horses over the first three years of the animals'

doctor mark shanahan is an associate professor of us presidential politics at the university of surreyhat he made of this announcement it looked for a while in the narrative that donald trump was actually running scared of the second debate. £31 actually running scared of the second debate.— actually running scared of the second debate. . ., , ., ., second debate. of course, he had a terrific first — second debate. of course, he had a terrific first debate _ second debate. of course, he had a terrific first debate against - second debate. of course, he had a terrific first debate against joe - terrific first debate againstjoe biden which ensured that biden dropped out of the presidential race, pretty much. but kamala harris is a very different candidate and there was the sense that the company wanted to avoid a face—to—face confrontation with her. now, obviously, she stood up this week and said, come on, talk to my face. and he seems to have responded. but he has managed to get his network to run it, fox, which is much more sympathetic to him. and he has changed the date as well, bring

speak to dr mark shanahan, who is an associate professor of us presidential politics at the university of surreyere. this is an interesting one. it looked for a while in the narrative that donald trump was actually running scared of the second debate, but of course he had a terrific first debate againstjoe biden, which ensured thatjoe biden dropped out of the presidential race pretty much. kemal harris is a very different candidate. there was the sense that trump wanted to avoid a face to face confrontation with her. obviously she stood up this week and said come on, talk to my face, and he seems to have responded. but he has managed to get his network to run it, fox, which is much more sympathetic to him. he has changed the dates as well, bringing it forward from originally september the 10th, to almost a week earlier, just before in fact the first polls open for postal votes for americans. interesting. we have got used to over the years paying a lot of attention to the debates, but also commentators coming on and saying actually, they don't move the dial that much, they are not that significan

veterinary scientists at the university of surrey have discovered that by testing bacteria in the digestive perform on the track. our science correspondent victoria gill explains. atjust a few months old, these thoroughbred foals are neverfarfrom mum, although they're very curious about the world. and at this stables in surrey, young racehorses have been involved in a scientific study that's revealed clues about whether they'll be a future winner. this little nibbly one is just four months old, but she's basically an athlete in training. and what this research has shown is that even at one month old, her future success can actually be seen inside her body, in her gut. the scientists just need a small sample from the stable. it's as simple as that. all we need for the tests that we're going to do are a faecal sample from the foal. in this container are all the microbes or bacteria that live in a young racehorse's gut. the researchers used a dna test to reveal all the different kinds of bacteria. they regularly took and tested faecal samples from 52 horses over the first three years of the an

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