Scientists have turned to artifacts associated with Leonardo da Vinci on a quest to track down the legendary polymath’s elusive DNA.

There were no lions in 16th-century Puerto Rico — so was the cave drawing made by someone who'd actually seen one? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

The cave paintings were discovered by an international team of researchers preserved in limestone caves on one of Sulawesi’s ...

Art, by its nature, often lends itself to multiple readings or interpretations. What one takes away from a work of art depends not just on what the artist brought to it when they sat down to put pen ...

After nearly 350 years, a depiction of a bee’s brain is getting some buzz. A manuscript created in the mid-1670s contains the oldest known depiction of an insect’s brain, historian of science Andrea ...

Herlinde Koelbl's portraits of Nobel laureates (from left) Stefan Hell, Jennifer Doudna and Carolyn Bertozzi. Nobel-winning scientific discoveries can't often be distilled easily. Take the quantum ...

Times readers were invited to share their drawings of the avian life around them. Here are more of our favorites. By The New York Times All through the summer, as part of our birding project, The ...

In 1997, I had a vision that I drew out in a flash that would change my life. It depicted the evolution of complexity that started with energy and grew into the dimensions of matter, life, mind, and ...