Artist, inventor and anatomist Leonardo da Vinci was the definition of a Renaissance man — and scientists are aiming to ...
Scientists have wanted to study Leonardo da Vinci to see if his genetics hold the key to his genius for years. But there's a ...
Learn about the Leonardo DNA Project and the diverse biological traces that survive on the surface of historical artifacts.
In a first, scientists have extracted DNA from a Renaissance-era drawing attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, but they can't be ...
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Science correspondent Richard Stone about recent developments in the search for Leonardo da ...
What if a single Renaissance drawing could reveal not just who made it, but the biological traces of Leonardo da Vinci ...
Scientists are one step closer to pinpointing fragments of Leonardo da Vinci’s elusive DNA. A team of researchers from the ...
London -- A drawing of a bearded, pensive-looking man owned by Queen Elizabeth II is a portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, a royal art adviser said Thursday on the 500th anniversary of his death. Martin ...
The painting is unfinished, its origins shrouded in mystery—and yet it has been hailed as one of the great masterpieces in the history of art. And now, an entire exhibition is dedicated to it at the ...
If you were friends with Leonardo da Vinci, there’s a variety of favors you could have asked him for. You could have asked him to paint you a fine portrait, or to build you a flying machine, or to ...