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

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

Scientists have recovered a sample of DNA from a Leonardo da Vinci drawing that could belong to the Renaissance polymath.

What if a single Renaissance drawing could reveal not just who made it, but the biological traces of Leonardo da Vinci ...

Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights.

ARTIFICIAL intelligence is no longer just a peripheral tool in research. The rapid accumulation, availability and accessibility of data sets has now become a structural layer of the scientific method ...

Tadeo Ramirez-Parada studied the timing of plant flowering for his PhD — but he didn’t touch a single petal. Instead, he ...

A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 radio signals of ...

Illumina has unveiled a database of genomic alterations, called the Billion Cell Atlas, that can be used to identify and ...

University of Illinois students created oPool+, a breakthrough method to mass-produce and test thousands of antibodies.

Sputnik skies to analysis of interstellar visitors, scientists are rethinking how and where to look for physical traces of ...