Jad Sleiman

A virtual reality game became a lifeline for a player dealing with depression and anxiety. Experts say he stumbled onto a tool that may one day be a normal part of therapy.

Tropical Storm Allison ravaged Houston’s Texas Medical Center in 2001. Sixteen years of storm-proofing followed, before Hurricane Harvey made landfall.

University of Pennsylvania scientists used high-tech cameras and microphones in an advanced aviary to capture every detail of a songbird mating season.

Violators won’t get tickets, the school says. Instead, smokers will be asked to stop and be given cards with smoking-cessation information.

'Dinosaurs Around The World’ brings nearly a dozen moving models to the Academy of Natural Sciences for a visit until January.

It’s the graduate-school entry test that’s stood between undergrads and advanced programs for decades, and it’s increasingly falling out of favor.

Streptomyces griseus, New Jersey’s state microbe, was recognized for its role in development of an antibiotic. Such honorees often represent a cause.

A neighborhood is fighting to keep just one block of one street car-free. But it’s waging an insurgency in a war automobiles won decades ago.

Drexel researchers looked at young adults with autism at ages when they leave behind the traditional supports of their high schools and enter the workforce.

A breastfeeding initiative that keeps newborns close is a blessing to some moms, a misery to others. But what’s best for baby, and what’s driving this?

The first-of-its-kind report focused exclusively on black men and boys. Researchers found that they lag behind other demographics in key health outcomes.

A fight in California over what constitutes a break illuminates a wider debate about working conditions of emergency medical technicians and paramedics.