Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA may be embedded in his art — and scientists think they’ve managed to extract some

In a first, scientists have extracted DNA from a Renaissance-era drawing attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, but they can’t be sure that the genetic material belongs to the Italian polymath. Scientists say...

Plants self-organize in a ‘hidden order,’ echoing pattern found across nature

Scientists have discovered a “perfect disordered hyperuniform” pattern in how plants arrange themselves across many dry landscapes that allows them to make the most of water resources. Scientists...

Resurrected tissue: Mechanism that enables regeneration after extensive damage solves a 50-year-old mystery

Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, our skin tissue—and in fact many types of epithelial tissue that lines and covers the body’s organs—can respond to death and destruction with a burst of regeneration...