NOTA BENE: This was our April Fool’s Day prank story for April 1, 2022. Let the record stand that to the best of our knowledge Leonardo da Vinci did not invent the whoopie cushion. Had he lived long ...

In the 1480s, Italian Renaissance artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci came up with an ingenious design for an “aerial screw.” A rotor in the shape of a helix measuring about 13 feet in diameter, the ...

Leonardo da Vinci is best known for works like the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, but what you might not know is that in the 1480s—hundreds of years before the first flight—the polymath sketched a ...

A quadcopter drone that uses ancient technology instead of modern propellers made a huge impression at the recent Transformative Vertical Flight conference. University of Maryland graduate student ...

The over 7,000 square foot exhibition is organized around da Vinci's study of nature's four elements: earth with cranes and a ...

New at the California Science Center the exhibition “Leonardo Da Vinci: Inventor. Artist. Dreamer.” The exhibition features 30 of Leonardo da Vinci’s (1452-1519) genius inventions each built by ...

Exercise “Stella Alpina 2024” saw specialized components of the Italian Army training with new systems and technologies, including a pre-production model of the new AW249 attack helicopter and ...

An upcoming book by art historian Stephen J. Campbell, Da Vinci: An Untraceable Life, digs into what we know—and what we never can know—about the Renaissance genius. In the book, Campbell “addresses ...

Leonardo successfully completed high-altitude trials of its AW101-612 helicopter in Colorado, exceeding expectations by finishing the 21-day plan in 16 days. The trials demonstrated increased engine ...

Encore Fridays, Jan. 17 and 24, 2025 at 8 p.m. and Sundays, Jan. 19 and 26 at 11 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with KPBS Passport! LEONARDO DA VINCI looks at how the artist influenced and inspired ...