What does it mean to discover genetic material from an iconic artists who’d been dead for years? In the recent book Wild Thing: A Biography of Paul Gaugin, Sue Prideaux discussed how the discovery of ...

Art, by its nature, often lends itself to multiple readings or interpretations. What one takes away from a work of art depends not just on what the artist brought to it when they sat down to put pen ...

Few individuals have been able to blend artistry and science together as well as Leonardo Da Vinci. An artist as well as an architect, inventor, and philosopher, the Italian typified the idea of the ...

Picture the amazing works of Renaissance artists like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo – the Mona Lisa, David, the Sistine Chapel. Now picture a corpse. It's a jarring juxtaposition, but the master ...

Fantastic machines based on sketches by Leonardo da Vinci that were years ahead of their times — including a bicycle, machine gun, helicopter, and even a robot — are coming to the Motor City.

DEARBORN, MI - A world renowned Leonardo da Vinci exhibition is coming to Michigan for a limited time featuring both his art and his inventions. The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn will unveil, “Da ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists are trying to sequence the DNA of Leonardo da Vinci to identify if the remains at his interment site really are his. The project began ...

In a groundbreaking development, researchers have cracked a 500-year-old anatomical puzzle that was first identified by the brilliant Leonardo da Vinci. The mystery surrounds the trabeculae of the ...

Like the artist, the scientist is a lover of nature. Just as the artist is restricted only by his imagination and his facility with his chisel or brush, the scientist is restricted only by his ...

A London-based dentist may have cracked a centuries-old mathematics puzzle hidden in one of the most famous anatomical drawings in the world—Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man. This discovery suggests ...

“It’s been wonderful to have the old dog learn some new tricks,” said Ken Burns, now in his fifth decade as a filmmaker, speaking about his first non-American documentary subject. It’s also the ...