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Three Malaysian Beaches Make It To CNN's 'Top 100 Beaches In The World'

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Tioman's Juara Beach is number 21 on the list of Top 100 Best Beaches In The World. Filepic: lukewood.co.ukKUALA LUMPUR: A survey conducted by renowned news network CNN on the top 100 best beaches in the world saw Malaysia claiming three spots.

At number 49 on the list, sits Tanjung Rhu beach in Pulau Langkawi.

CNN described the beach as having an earthy beauty that is coupled with a serene atmosphere.

Meanwhile, coming in at number 21 is Juara Beach in Pulau Tioman.

Calling it a non-nightlife beach, the attraction of Juara Beach is in its less developed and less polished ambience compared to those in Thailand.

Tanjung Rhu, LangkawiFurther up on the list at number 13, which translates to Malaysia's number 1 best beach is Pulau Perhentian Kecil in Terengganu.

According to the list, once anyone has had the pleasure of experiencing Perhentian Kecil, nothing else quite matches up, adding that the blue waters off its shores contain turtles and small sharks.

In an article published today on edition.cnn.com, cheerily dubbed their top 100 ranking as possibly the greatest list of beaches ever produced.

Also running simultaneously is CNN's Facebook poll where netizens are invited to vote on the World's Best Beaches.

Taking the top spot as the world's best beach is Grande Anse on La Digue Island in Seychelles.

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Sandy beaches, concerts, walks through the Southern past: 5 free things in Myrtle Beach, SC

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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - Myrtle Beach, this year celebrating the 75th anniversary of its incorporation, is the heart of South Carolina's $16.5 billion tourism industry. Myrtle Beach is in the centre of a 60-mile (100-kilometre) reach of beaches that attracts more than 14 million visitors a year to dozens of golf courses, hundreds of restaurants and tens of thousands of hotel, motel and other rental units. There's shopping at hundreds of stores and nine live entertainment theatres with almost 12,000 seats. But there's a lot to do for free. Here are five suggestions:

THE BEACH

This is the reason people come to Myrtle Beach. In South Carolina, the beaches are public and there are regular beach access points. Some areas have lifeguards and some have umbrellas and chairs for rent, but all you really need is a beach blanket and a cool drink. There's a beach for most every taste. Pawleys Island, to the south, is considered one of the oldest beach resorts on the East Coast with homes dating to the 1700s. The quiet beach is lined with weathered bungalows and proudly calls itself "arrogantly shabby." In Myrtle Beach, the shore is lined with high-rise hotels and condominiums and it's just a short walk to grab a burger along busy Ocean Boulevard. If you bring a pet, check local regulations for hours when dogs can be on the beach.

THE BOARDWALK

The boardwalk runs along Myrtle Beach's oceanfront business district. Just over a mile (1.6 kilometres) in length, it was completed three years ago at a cost of more than $6 million. It's a great place to wander along the shore without getting your feet sandy or to just to sit and watch people enjoy their summer escape. At sunset you can watch the oceanfront SkyWheel, the tallest Ferris wheel in the eastern United States, spin lazily, illuminated by a million LED lights. The boardwalk is being extended another block and Mayor John Rhodes has said he would like the city to eventually build the world's longest, running 4.6 miles (7.4 kilometres) along the shore.

FREE CONCERTS, KIDS STUFF

Summer means a lot of free entertainment. In Plyler Park, just off the boardwalk, the Hot Summer Nights series of free concerts and other events runs this year from June 3 to Aug. 31. On Mondays there are free kids carnivals, with concerts from reggae to rock and country to Dixieland other nights of the week. Every Wednesday there are fireworks over the ocean. Across town, at the Broadway at the Beach entertainment complex, there are free fireworks every Tuesday and most Fridays during the summer. North Myrtle Beach holds four free concerts on Friday evenings during the season in McLean Park while there are other concerts by the lake at Myrtle Beach's Grand Park. As part of the Myrtle Beach birthday celebration, an oceanfront air show is set for June 28th through 30th.

ART MUSEUM

If you want to get out of the sun for a bit, stop by the Franklin Burroughs-Simeon Chapin Art Museum. Admission is free, but donations are always accepted. Located on the south end of Myrtle Beach, part of the structure is an almost 90-year-old beach house moved to its present location about 30 years ago. The museum has 10 galleries and an art studio for workshops. Beginning June 6, the museum hosts "Animation B.C. (Before Computers)," an exhibit focusing on the development of animation in the 20th Century. It features original production art including Mickey Mouse and Dora the Explorer. Also this summer, the museum features an exhibit with 45 works of golf art more than appropriate in an area with 102 golf courses.

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Our Malibu Beaches App Makes Those Beaches Public Again

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ABC News' Connor Burton reports:

For beachgoers in Malibu, Calif., finding a place on the beach can be a constant and frustrating prospect.

Malibu's oceanfront properties are home to some of the most beautiful beaches in the world, and surprisingly, the beaches are all open to the public.

But certain tactics by a few Malibu homeowners might make beachgoers believe otherwise, said Jenny Price, an environmental writer.

"Signage is a big problem," she said. "There are also orange cones that are used to block access points. There are even some properties that put out fake garage doors that aren't actually connected to anything. They are just there to block access points and parking spots."

But, yes, there's now an app for finding that perfect stretch of sand. Our Malibu Beaches, developed by Escape Apps in partnership with Price, helps beach lovers locate access points, parking and the perfect space to set up on the beach. Price said that they want to expand it from just iPhones to Androids as well.

"It gives you all the information you actually need to find these beaches and go on them comfortably," said Price.

Price said the partners hoped to offer the app, which comes out next week, free for download throughout the summer. If their Kickstarter campaign succeeds, they can offer the app free for longer.

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Astronomer John Hawley wins 2013 Shaw Prize in Astronomy

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Contact: Fariss Samarrai fls4f@virginia.edu 434-924-3778 University of Virginia

University of Virginia astronomer John Hawley and former U.Va. astronomer Steven Balbus, now at the University of Oxford, have been named co-winners of the 2013 Shaw Prize in Astronomy. The prize is considered Asia's equivalent to the Nobel Prize and is awarded in some categories like astronomy that the Nobel does not specifically include.

Hawley and Balbus will share the $1 million award and address the Shaw Prize selection committee during a ceremony Sept. 23 in Hong Kong. The Shaw Prize Foundation gives the international award, which includes a gold medal, each year to currently active individuals who are "furthering societal progress, enhancing quality of life, and enriching humanity's spiritual civilization." Its categories are Astronomy, Life Science and Medicine and Mathematical Sciences.

Hawley and Balbus are being recognized for their groundbreaking discovery in the early 1990s of the mechanism magnetorotational instability that accounts for the process of accretion, a widespread phenomenon in astrophysics. It plays a key role in star formation, mass transfer between binary stars, and black hole X-ray binaries, and contributes to the growth of supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies. Astrophysical systems powered by accretion are some of the most energetic phenomena in the universe, including quasars, active galactic nuclei and gamma ray bursts.

Matter that falls toward a compact star or black hole has too much angular momentum ("spin") to fall directly in, and instead settles into a disk orbiting the central body. Subsequent infall, or accretion, requires a mechanism, such as turbulence, to transfer angular momentum outward through the disk. Prior to the discovery, astronomers were certain that gases orbiting black holes were turbulent, but could not say why, as all hydrodynamic analysis showed the orbits to be stable. Balbus and Hawley's discovery was that magnetic fields make the crucial difference; magnetorotational instability makes the orbits unstable.

Their subsequent work on modeling its consequences in disks solved a fundamental problem in astrophysics and transformed the field of accretion disk theory.

To make their discovery, Hawley and Balbus, then working together at U.Va., combined mathematical analysis with detailed computer simulations of the behavior of turbulent magnetized gases. Their discovery paper was published in 1991. Subsequent research by both researchers and many other astronomers worldwide has substantiated and expanded upon the initial discoveries, and the magnetorotational instability is now part of the standard theory of activity in black hole systems. (To view a computer simulation of a black hole accretion disk, click here.)

"The Shaw Prize Foundation has been extremely selective over the years in awarding its astronomy prize to the most significant discoveries in the field," said Michael Skrutskie, chair of the astronomy department. "This highly regarded award is yet another validation of the strength of theoretical astrophysics at U.Va. really the foundation upon which this department was built in the modern era. We couldn't be happier to see John and Steve's work recognized with an award of such significance on the world stage."

Hawley learned of his $1 million award on Tuesday morning when he was at home checking email.

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Hubble stays relevant on astronomy's high frontier

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Despite steady advances in ground-based astronomy, the Hubble Space Telescope, with its famously flawed mirror, its equally famed redemption and more than two decades as an icon of world-class science, is more productive today than at any point in its history, scientists say.

Despite 23 years in the harsh environment of space, Hubble still stands at the forefront of optical astronomy, thanks to a string of dramatic shuttle servicing missions and a hard-earned understanding of the observatory's quirks and idiosyncrasies.

A dramatic photo of the famous Ring Nebula in the constellation Lyra, assembled from new observations by the Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based instruments, shows a more complex structure than previously known. The distinctive "ring" is made up of gas blown away from a massive star some 4,000 years ago.

During the last shuttle visit in 2009, two new instruments were installed and two others were repaired by spacewalking astronauts. The shuttle crew also installed a full set of gyroscopes, new batteries and a refurbished fine guidance sensor to help the observatory find and lock onto its targets.

While no one knows how long Hubble will remain scientifically productive -- and with the shuttle's retirement, there is no way to carry out any future repairs -- the observatory currently is working in near flawless fashion. Mission managers are hopeful the telescope will remain scientifically viable through the end of the decade, if not longer.

"I think we can argue, reliably, that it's the most scientifically productive observatory of any kind, ever, in history," said Ken Sembach, head of Hubble operations at the Space Telescope Science Institute at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

"We're now at about 11,300 papers published in scientific journals based on Hubble data and there are nearly a half million citations of those papers. So it's a huge piece of the scientific literature and a huge reference for future work in astronomy."

To use a different metric, Sembach said research based on Hubble data results in "essentially a new Ph.D. every 10 days."

Yet another way of assessing Hubble's value to the astronomical community is to consider the number of proposals received for each new observing cycle. The latest batch included nearly 1,100 requests for Hubble observing time.

"We can typically honor maybe 180 or 200, so the over-subscription is at least five- or six-to-one in terms of proposals and it's more than that in terms of time," he said. "We typically have about 20,000 orbits requested and typically only about 3,000 or 3,500 to give out."

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BREAKING NEWS Iran equips IRGC Aerospace Force with long-range missile launchers to hit israel – Video

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Iran #39;s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Aerospace Force (IRGC AF) has been equipped with a large number of long-range surface-to surface missile launchers....

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