Researchers at MIT have proven Leonardo da Vinci correct yet again, this time involving his design for what would have been a ...

A reconstructed model of a medieval war machine with rotating cannons from Leonardo da Vinci's manuscripts is on display at an ongoing exhibition at the Natural History Museum of China in Beijing.

The last person to get their hands on a painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci shelled out more than $450 million at ...

Two Italian historians have announced they have found the “lost descendants” of Leonardo da Vinci after a 10-year-long quest into the family tree of the famous polymath, inventor, and artist. Italian ...

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was born in the middle of the Humanism movement – a search for the lost wisdom of the classical age that broke with the rigid schemes of the Middle Ages. It provided an ...

A groundbreaking project is piecing together Leonardo da Vinci’s genetic profile by tracing his lineage across 21 generations and comparing DNA from living descendants with remains in a Da Vinci ...

For more than 500 years, Leonardo da Vinci has remained the Renaissance’s most enigmatic figure — a painter, scientist, engineer, and dreamer whose genius seemed almost otherworldly. Yet, for all the ...

For centuries, Leonardo da Vinci’s genius has fascinated historians and scientists alike, but now researchers are closer than ever to uncovering his true biological legacy. A decades-long genealogical ...

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 ...