Researchers working on the Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project believe the Renaissance Man left his DNA on the chalk drawing titled “Holy Child.” ...

In a first, scientists have extracted DNA from a Renaissance-era drawing attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, but they can't be sure that the genetic material belongs to the Italian polymath.

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

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

Leonardo da Vinci, art history’s most famous southpaw, was actually ambidextrous, researchers have proven. The Uffizi Gallery in Florence conducted an in-depth study of Leonardo’s earliest known ...

Researchers from the University of Maryland, College Park, may have captured ancient DNA from the Italian High Renaissance ...

Leonardo da Vinci was a pioneering painter and inventor—and, perhaps, bird lady. Avians appear in a number of the 13,000 notebook pages he produced, from the kite hawks of Codex Atlanticus (c. 1478) ...

New at the California Science Center the exhibition “Leonardo Da Vinci: Inventor. Artist. Dreamer.” The exhibition features 30 of Leonardo da Vinci’s (1452-1519) genius inventions each built by ...

A skilled artist, scientist, architect, and inventor, Leonardo da Vinci has represented the ideal of the “Renaissance man” for centuries. Advancing an assortment of fields, from anatomy and botany to ...

Robert Simon encountered a Leonardo da Vinci painting and got emotional. “I cried,” he told The Post of seeing the work hanging in Christie’s New York, displayed ahead of a 2017 auction. “Thank God ...

Experts claim the 500-year-old painting is a bona fide work of the artist Leonardo da Vinci's sketch of Isabella d'Este, is seen at the Louvre Museum in Paris, the painting on the right appears to be ...