METRO Friday, September 25, 2009 D IM GONNA LIVE FOREVER CINEMAS TODAY OK!OK!OOK!KOK! FAME HAS ALL THE RIGHT MOVES FANTASTIC FUNROBBIE COLLIN - NEWS OF THE WORLDROBROBBBBBIEBIEIBIEBI CCOCOLLLLIIN -NNNN NENENNN WSWSWWWSWS OFOFOFOF THETHEHTHETH WOWOWOWOWORLDRLDLLDLDR DDROBROBROBBIEBIEBIE COC LLILLILINN -N - NENENEWSWSWS OFOFOF THETHETHE WOWOWORLDRLDRLDD A MUST-SEELOOK COMPANYLOOKLOOLOOKK COMCOMPANPANYYCOMPANY EXHILARATING...SETS THE SCREEN ALIGHTALAN FRANK - DAILY STAR Vaccine reduces risk of HIV 30% A VACCINE which can cut the risk of people becoming infected with HIV by about 30 per cent has energised the battle against Aids. The drug, tested in Thailand, was a combination of two previously unsuccessful vaccines. Even though the benefit is modest, its the first evidence that we could have a safe and effective preventive vaccine, said Col Jerome Kim who helped lead the study. Today marks a historic milestone, said Mitchell Warren, of the Aids Vaccine Advocacy Coalition. There is little doubt that this finding will energise and redirect the Aids vaccine field. The worlds largest Aids vaccine trial saw 16,000 volunteers sign up for the five-year project. Half the group of 18 to 30 year olds at average risk of contracting HIV were given the drugs and the other half received a placebo. At the end of the study, new infections occurred in 51 of the 8,197 given the vaccine and in 74 of the 8,198 who received dummy shots. Study of flatfish supports Darwins theory of evolution A SPECIES of fish that left naturalist Charles Darwin questioning his own theory of evolution fits perfectly into his research, scientists have said. Darwin, author of On The Origin Of Species, believed animal evolution occurred gradually over millions of years, but he was troubled by the order of the flatfish because the fossil record of the group, often characterised by having both eyes in one side of its head, was incomplete at the time of his studies in the 19th century. A study of the fossil fishes by Dr Matt Friedman, from Oxford University, has found that positions of the eyes gradually changed over millions of years supporting Darwins theories. The eyes have it The samples, collected during the Apollo missions between 1969 and 1972, were found to bear traces of water. But experts at the time dismissed the find- ings, believing they were contaminated by air leaking into sample containers. Scientists were forced to think again after examining new data from an Indian spacecraft,Chandrayaan-1,whichceased operating last month. A US instrument on the orbiter called the Moon Mineralogy Mapper, or M3, measured light reflection patterns to ana- lyse the composition of a thin layer of lunar top soil. It detected wavelengths characteristic of water, and another type of hydrogen-oxy- gen chemical bonding called hydroxil. Subsequently the findings were con- firmed by similar recorded data from two missions by the American space agency Nasa. Evidence of water found on the Moon SCIENTISTS have found evidence of water on the surface of the Moon. But theres not a drop to drink as the water does not exist in liquid form but is bound up with minerals in lunar soil. Nevertheless, experts believe the dis- covery could have major implications for the future of Moon exploration. With suitable technology, water could be extracted from Moon dust and stored for use in lunar bases. Hydrogen and oxygen, the two compo- nents of water, could also provide a valu- able source of fuel and breathable air. Data from three different orbiting sat- ellites detected large quantities of water on the Moon, mostly at the poles but also at lower latitudes. Scientists believe it got there as a result of bombardment by nuclear particles pouring out of the Sun. Part of the Solar Wind consists of hy- drogen atom nuclei. Striking the lunar surface, these are thought to have com- bined with oxygen in the rocks and soil to form water.About 45 per cent of Moon soil and rocks consists of oxygen, mostly bound up in silicates. The new findings suggest that early as- sumptions about Moon rocks brought home to Earth by the Apollo astronauts were wrong. By John von RadowiTz h2o: an illustration of how charged hydrogen ions carried from the Sun by the Solar wind formed water on the Moon Picture: PA index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html24.html25.html26.html27.html