Mercury, closest planet to the sun, is as hot as you would expect, with daytime temperatures of 800 degrees Fahrenheit/450 degrees Celsius and because of its small size, its gravity is weak, only about 38 percent of Earth's.

These conditions make it hard for the planet to hold on to its extremely thin atmosphere, which can can only be seen by special instruments attached to telescopes and spacecraft like MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging).  Even then it's not easy because Mercury's magnetic field gets in the way. MESSENGER's first flyby on January 14, 2008, confirmed that the planet has a global magnetic field, as first discovered by the Mariner 10 spacecraft during its flybys of the planet in 1974 and 1975.

There is beauty in strange places. An ordinary life can leave traces of us that gather into something oddly appealing. Something more than the sum of its parts.

LOS ANGELES, June 1 /PRNewswire/ --

Since June 2008, aspiring singers, songwriters, filmmakers, comedians, and photographers joined together in the YOBI.tv community, all in the hopes of sharing their talent and winning the grand prize. The competition, which attracted thousands of entries from 36 countries, was divided into four categories: YOBIFilm; YOBISing; YOBILaugh; YOBIPics. On Thursday, May 28, 2009 the winners were contacted and we are officially bringing the news to you first! You can watch the finalists' reactions at www.YOBI.tv.

SUNNYVALE, California, June 1 /PRNewswire/ --

- Large multi-center trial conducted in a community practice setting demonstrates comparable outcomes as trials conducted in predominantly tertiary academic centers

TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 1 /PRNewswire/ --

- 2-Teraflop SuperServer 6016T-GF Series with Dual Nehalem CPUs and Two Non-Blocking PCI-E x16 Gen 2 slots for Two Double-Width GPUs

Super Micro Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI), a leader in application-optimized, high performance server solutions, is introducing the fastest 1U server on the planet this week at Computex (booth N806, Nangang Upper Exhibition Hall). As the first 1U multi-GPU (graphics processing unit) system with a fully non-blocking architecture, Supermicro's new 2-Teraflop SuperServer 6016T-GF Series features dual Nehalem processors and two Gen2 PCI-Express x16 interfaces to support two double-width GPUs.

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TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 1 /PRNewswire/ --

- World's Fastest 1U Server, 2U Twin2 (Twin Squared) Servers, High-Efficiency (93%+) Gold Level Power Supplies, SAS-2 Storage, Blades, and Atom Servers

SAN DIEGO, June 1 /PRNewswire/ --

Pure Play Music is an entire music infrastructure that allows an artist to self market their own music through Pure Play's unique and expansive global distribution network. Pure Play has introduced something that will completely change the way unsigned, emerging artists and indie acts get their music played commercially. Pure Play Music provides independent artists with access to broad new distribution channels to introduce their music to the world -- and monetize it.

At the opening of last week’s Nobel Laureate symposium, US Energy Secretary Steven Chu endorsed a low-tech tool to keep climate change at bay: white paint.  According to Chu’s colleague Art Rosenfeld, lightening our planet’s dark roofs and roads would be enough to offset the carbon emissions of cars for the next 11 years.  

SAN JOSE, California, June 1 /PRNewswire/ --

- SAM3U is Code Portable from Atmel's Established ARM7- and ARM9-based MCU Families

SAN FRANCISCO, June 1 /PRNewswire/ --

- Vertica Analytic Database for the Cloud 3.0 adds new ease-of-use, Java development and Sun Cloud support

Today at the CommunityOne West conference, Vertica announced an upgrade to its Vertica(R) Analytic Database for the Cloud that brings all the new features of the recently announced Vertica 3.0 platform to cloud computing customers. The new version also adds improved Java development capabilities, support for Sun's forthcoming Sun Cloud, and a number of new ease-of-use and management features.