A new study examining some of Leonardo da Vinci's sketches in the Codex Arundel reveals the artist calculated the earth's gravitational constant at a 97% accuracy rate.

Leonardo da Vinci's centuries-old sketches reveal he may have understood key aspects of gravity long before Galileo, Newton and Einstein.

Leonardo da Vinci Sketches Go on Display in the U.S. for the First Time Pages of the “Codex Atlanticus” provide a rare glimpse into the Renaissance icon’s imagination and scientific prowess ...

A 500-year-old sketch by Leonardo da Vinci has led to the remarkable discovery of hidden tunnels beneath Sforza Castle in Milan, Italy. The revelation confirms that da Vinci’s detailed ...

A team of engineers studying the 500-year-old, backward writings of Leonardo da Vinci have found evidence that the Italian polymath was working out gravity a century before its foundations were ...

A simulation of the "aerial screw" designed by Leonardo da Vinci in 1480 suggests it would use less power than modern drone ...

Sketches found inside Leonardo da Vinci's sketchbooks, show that he had already grasped the essence of Einstein’s 1907 ‘Equivalence Principle’ centuries before the physicist.

Window to the soul Leonardo da Vinci’s 1516 sketch of an aging man is likely to be a self-portrait of the artist, then around 65. Bridgeman/ACI.

Explore Leonardo da Vinci's most famous works like the Mona Lisa, as well as his drawings and unfinished works. In 1517, Leonardo showed a visitor a portrait of Lisa del Giocondo, the wife of a ...

A period of immense artistic and cultural growth that ushered out the Middle Ages, forever changing the world in the process, the Renaissance began in the Florentine Republic in the 14 th century, ...

How exactly does an airplane achieve lift? Why do so many explanations of this invisible force fall short? And what can past ...

Leonardo da Vinci is a 2-part, 4-hour docuseries directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon. It’s Ken Burns’ first project that isn’t about an American subject, but given how da ...