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What's Hot This Week Top 10 US Beaches of 2011 Revealed by Jeanna Bryner Moving up a spot from last year, Florida's Siesta Beach - known for the whitest sand in the world and its clean, blue water - topped the 2011 list for best beaches, which was announced today Scientists Fool People Into Thinking They're Tiny or Giant by Charles Q. Choi Fooling the brain so one experiences the world as either doll- or giant-size a la "Alice in Wonderland" is the latest trick from a mind-bending cadre of scientists in Sweden. Sponsored by: Science Is Tops: Highest-Paying Majors (Infographic) Cannibalism Weeds Out Baby Alligators That's Incredible! 9 Brainy Baby Abilities Debate Reignited Over Claim of Arsenic-Based Life Big Love: Woolly Mammoths, Huge Elephants May Have Interbred