Scientists have turned to artifacts associated with Leonardo da Vinci on a quest to track down the legendary polymath’s ...

"This divine moment is a cornerstone of Early Renaissance art." Gabrielle Stein explores representations of Epiphany in Italian painting.

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

Five centuries after Leonardo da Vinci died, scientists are probing a startling possibility: that microscopic traces of his ...

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According to a new (but as-of-yet not peer-reviewed) study published in the preprint database bioRxiv, scientists began their ...

This week researchers from the Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project announced they have made the kind of breakthrough you might ...

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

Scientists have successfully recovered what may be Leonardo da Vinci's DNA from a centuries-old red chalk drawing, marking a breakthrough that could unlock secrets about one of history's greatest ...

An international team of scientists says it may have recovered traces of DNA linked to Leonardo da Vinci from a ...

You may have seen the Mona Lisa on coffee mugs, phone cases, textbooks, and museum walls, but Leonardo da Vinci’s painting ...