AP - Although global oil prices have plummeted, the cost of heating your home this winter will be a lot more expensive, especially for households that depend on fuel oil, the Energy Department predicted Tuesday.

The prize was awarded for work exploring the hidden symmetries between elementary particles.

The fate of the Yangtze giant soft-shell turtle is especially dire because only one female is known to exist - an 80-year-old turtle.

The medical model for prevention has become less about health promotion and more about early diagnosis. And this approach is costly.

An American, Yoichiro Nambu, 87, won half of the prize for the discovery of a mechanism called spontaneous broken symmetry. Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa of Japan shared the prize for discovering the origin of the broken symmetry that predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.