Leonardo da Vinci predicted how our heart valves close with almost unbelievable powers of deduction and 500 years later, we know he was right. Leonardo became obsessed with the heart in the latter ...

The math that describes the branching pattern of trees in nature also holds for trees depicted in art—and may even underlie ...

Leonardo da Vinci approached the world with a fearless ... Muslim scientists in the Middle East had been testing theories with experiments for years, but most European natural philosophers relied ...

These writings, which challenged ancient theories about the source of mountain ... It was in this environment that Leonardo da Vinci would eventually find patronage, having first approached ...

An underground tunnel network long rumored thanks to drawings by Leonardo da Vinci under Milan’s Sforza Castle are proven to ...

The salt theory has been floated around by scholars ... the Olympics producers told The Wrap that ‘Jolly took inspiration from Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting to create the setting.

Twenty years ago The Da Vinci Code gripped the world with the ... But the story you may not know is that key parts of the theory have their origins not in the archives of The Vatican, but in ...

It’s simply a contraction of “ma donna,” or “my lady” in Italian — like saying Madam Lisa in English. Some alternatives: Mona Lisa was Leonardo’s mother or some other Italian noblewoman or a disguised ...