In late 2025, researchers at the University of Alaska Museum of the North uncovered a startling revelation: two fossilized ...
What if a single Renaissance drawing could reveal not just who made it, but the biological traces of Leonardo da Vinci ...
Researchers working on the Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project believe the Renaissance Man left his DNA on the chalk drawing titled ...
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Science correspondent Richard Stone about recent developments in the search for Leonardo da ...
DNA doesn’t just sit still inside our cells — it folds, loops, and rearranges in ways that shape how genes behave.
For years we’ve been told that MtDNA (maternal DNA) is passed from mother to children, both male and female, but only ...
Scientists have uncovered genetic evidence that they say may be linked to the Renaissance master, but some experts are more ...
A large genetic study shows that many people carry DNA sequences that slowly expand as they get older. Common genetic ...
But some Neanderthal DNA helped modern humans survive and reproduce, and thus it has lingered in our genomes. Nowadays, ...
The truth is that, while DNA testing is often touted as being 99.9% accurate, that tiny remaining fraction is where thousands ...
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), with collaborators from the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), ...