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Charles Q. Choi in his article entitled The Real Science of ‘Avatar’ in SPACE.com states that “the movie is set on the fictional Pandora, one of the many moons of a fictional Saturn-sized gas giant, Polyphemus, which is located in the real Alpha Centauri system, which at nearly 4.4 light-years away is the closest star system to Earth. [...]

It was generally thought that apes acquire the infection but do not have the syndrome. A new study reveals that simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) bears the same results as when the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) develops into full-blown AIDS. A study published in the latest edition of the journal nature dismantles the theory that African primates [...]