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 ...

According to a new (but as-of-yet not peer-reviewed) study published in the preprint database bioRxiv, scientists began their ...

Scientists with the ambitious Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project think they have potentially snagged a sample of DNA from the ...

Learn about the Leonardo DNA Project and the diverse biological traces that survive on the surface of historical artifacts.

Scientists have recovered tiny DNA traces left on Renaissance artifacts, at least some of which they suspect belong to ...

Power was being restored on Wednesday to thousands of households in Berlin that had been without electricity in freezing ...

Scientists have recovered a sample of DNA from a Leonardo da Vinci drawing that could belong to the Renaissance polymath.

Some Y-chromosome DNA sequences from the “Holy Child” artwork and from a letter penned by one of Leonardo’s cousins appear to ...

A historical romp re-imagines the world’s most iconic genius as a rebellious, prank-loving kid on a mission to prove that imagination can change the world!

At the Santa Chiara Monumental Complex, the exhibition dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci continues, increasingly confirming ...

Leonardo da Vinci was not just a painter of masterpieces like the Mona Lisa, he was a visionary whose ideas stretched ...