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

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

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

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

In a New York City lab microbial geneticist Norberto Gonzalez-Juarbe leaned over a fragile Renaissance drawing and gently rubbed its surface — front and back — with a cotton swab, the same kind once ...

You might think you know it all when it comes to Leonardo da Vinci. He painted the Mona Lisa. As an inventor, he devised flying machines centuries before the Wright Brothers. And, in 2017, a painting ...

Ken Burns documentaries are their own category. There are documentaries, and then there are Ken Burns documentaries. Burns' latest, with Sarah Burns and David McMahon, "Leonardo da Vinci" (PBS), ...

Lots of folks trace the origins of cinema to Eadweard Muybridge’s timed sequence photography or William Kennedy Dickson’s kinetoscope, but Ken Burns makes a convincing case that the true spirit of ...

Inventor Leonardo da Vinci gets to play action hero in two upcoming Hollywood films where he fights supernatural forces and saves Europe from returning to the Dark Ages. It's somehow fitting for the ...