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From left, U.S. Soccer Federation President Carlos Cordeiro, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and soccer players Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan and Ashlyn Harris celebrate the U.S. women's soccer team's world championship in New York, during a ticker tape parade along the Canyon of Heroes Wednesday.

WATCH: Women's National Soccer Team Parades Through NYC's 'Canyon Of Heroes'

Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan, Rose Lavelle and their teammates are bathing in fans' cheers in Manhattan, celebrating their World Cup title.

Physical therapy may not help a person with a progressive chronic disease become well, but it can help slow a decline.

Legal Dispute Continues Over Medicare Coverage Of Physical Therapy

Under a settlement in 2013, Medicare was supposed to make clear to physical therapists that their services are covered even if beneficiaries aren't improving. But that hasn't been widely accepted.

Victoria Gray, who has sickle cell disease, volunteered for one of the most anticipated medical experiments in decades: the first attempt to use the gene-editing technique CRISPR to treat a genetic disorder in the United States.

A Young Mississippi Woman's Journey Through A Pioneering Gene-Editing Experiment

NPR tells the exclusive, behind-the-scenes story of the first person with a genetic disorder to be treated in the United States with the revolutionary gene-editing technique CRISPR.

Hawking gives a talk titled "A Brief History of Mine," to workers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on April 9, 2013.

Stephen Hawking, Who Awed Both Scientists And The Public, Dies

Hawking was a theoretical physicist who changed how scientists think about gravity. He also wrote the best-selling book A Brief History of Time and lent his machine-aided voice to TV shows. He was 76.

A lone surfer makes his way into the water as storm clouds come ashore in San Diego, Dec. 2, 2014.

Surf Forecasting Is Part Of Walter Munk's Legacy

Oceanographer Walter Munk has had a huge impact on his chosen science, and his work helps locals enjoy the San Diego surf.

Behrouz Boochani, a Kurdish-Iranian journalist and asylum-seeker, won two prestigious Australian literary prizes for his debut, a book composed in text messages sent from a detention center on Manus Island.

Asylum-Seeker Barred From Entering Australia Wins Its Richest Literary Prize

Behrouz Boochani, who has been detained offshore since 2013, had to compose his debut using WhatsApp messages. Now, that book has earned him the Victorian Prize for Literature

Those aren't birds — they're mini-missiles made of foam, from "Hellfire II," a piece by Pakistani-American artist Mahwish Chishty. It's part of the "Perilous Bodies" exhibit at the Ford Foundation Gallery in Manhattan.

Dangerous Art: A Stark But Inspiring New Exhibit

In "Perilous Bodies," a new exhibit at the Ford Foundation Gallery, artists share their vision of the injustice, from the rickety boats of migrants to missiles that look like a flock of blackbirds.

Women shout during a protest marking International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017.

UC San Diego Researcher Semifinalist For Women's Safety XPRIZE

A UC San Diego researcher is a semi-finalist in a worldwide contest to develop an inexpensive device that can improve women’s safety.

Edgar Baltazar Garcia's wife, Jennifer Garcia, holds a photo of her husband from when he was deployed at Balad Air Base in Iraq as a turret gunner in a Humvee. He now faces deportation to Mexico over a felony conviction.

After Felony Conviction, Iraq War Veteran Faces Deportation To Mexico

Edgar Baltazar Garcia got into some serious trouble after he came home from war. Now, he faces deportation over a felony conviction unless an immigration judge decides to let him stay in the U.S.

Quinn Robinson, 18, poses for a portrait in her bedroom in Allendale, Mich.

When The Conversation Doesn't Include You: LGBTQ+ Sex Ed In A Small Town

For the past year, residents in Allendale, Mich., have been debating whether to include LGBTQ+ people and perspectives in the school district's sex education program and anti-bullying campaign.

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