Virginia Commonwealth University has just received a 482,000 dollar grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue work on a compound that might help hard-core smokers to finally quit.  Charles Fishburne talked with Darlene Brunzell, Associate Professor in the VCU Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, in this WCVE Science Matters report.

A woman who was run over by a bus in downtown Richmond has survived and is expected to live.

State alcohol regulators say they have arrested a Pittsylvania County man after they seized 339 gallons of moonshine from his home. 

Entomologist Dr. Art Evans and WCVE producer Steve Clark share some of their last experiences with Brood II periodical cicadas. Thanks to a WBY? listener in Bumpass, Virginia, Art was able to photograph cicadas mating and laying eggs.

Thanks to everyone for contributing their Brood II observations to Cicadawatch 2013.

Photo: Seventeen-year cicadas, Magicicada septendecim, mating and laying eggs. © 2013, Arthur V. Evans. All rights reserved.