NPR's Juana Summers talks with Science correspondent Richard Stone about recent developments in the search for Leonardo da Vinci's DNA.

Leonardo da Vinci, a Renaissance master, excelled in art and science. His famous works include Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.

What if a single Renaissance drawing could reveal not just who made it, but the biological traces of Leonardo da Vinci ...

Leonardo da Vinci suggested simple wood treatments that still influence durable and sustainable building today.

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According to a new (but as-of-yet not peer-reviewed) study published in the preprint database bioRxiv, scientists began their ...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

In a first, scientists have extracted DNA from a Renaissance-era drawing attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, but they can't be ...

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.