Inventor: Scans reveal Mona Lisa secrets
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For centuries, the "Mona Lisa" has beguiled art buffs unable to resist speculating on its origins and meaning. Now a French inventor claims to have some answers, including the fate of the enigmatic subject's famously missing eyebrows and lashes.
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The intuitive scholar faces the hard evidence from the electron microscope.
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Anthropologists said they have pieced together Leonardo da Vinci's left index fingerprint &#151; a discovery that could help provide information on such matters as the food the artist ate and whether his mother was of Arabic origin.
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An ancient secret to unburden? A postcard, a stamp, and any private torment or personal shame can be confided anonymously to the world via an artist's website which has become a new hit of the Internet.
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A high-resolution image of Da Vinci's  "Last Supper" will soon be posted on the Internet by an Italian  technology firm, allowing art lovers and conspiracy theorists  alike to scrutinize it from their own computers.
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A 3D hologram technique could transform how experts spot forged signatures and other handwritten documents.
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A researcher has uncovered evidence that apparently confirms the identity of the woman behind the Mona Lisa's iconic smile, Germany's University of Heidelberg says.
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German academics believe they have solved the centuries-old mystery behind the identity of the "Mona Lisa" in Leonardo da Vinci's famous portrait.
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Nearly 150 years ago it was no more than  a concept by a visionary scientist, but researchers have now  created a minuscule motor that could lead to the creation of  microscopic nanomachines.
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Maybe they should call it the "Mama Lisa." Researchers studying 3-D images of the "Mona Lisa" say she was probably either pregnant or had just given birth when she sat for Leonardo da Vinci's 16th-century masterpiece. The clue was something she wore.
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Pages can scarcely contain the scope of Leonardo da VinciÂs mind.
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The University of Heidelberg in Germany says it has identified the woman in Leonardoâs âMona Lisaâ (detail below), The Associated Press reported. She is Lisa del Giocondo, wife of Francesco del Giocondo, a Florentine businessman. In a statement on Monday, the college said its library expert, Armin Schlechter, found the answer in a copy of the works of Cicero, where, in 1503, Agostino Vespucci, a Florentine official and friend of Leonardoâs, wrote in the margins that the artist was working on a portrait of Lisa del Giocondo. Surprise? For centuries the Mona Lisa has been known in Italian as La Gioconda. Though anecdotal evidence pointed to Giocondo as early as 1550, vague references in 1517, 1525 and 1540 pointed to others.
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IBM Corp. researchers are touting one of the tiniest pieces of art ever made &#151; an image of the sun made from 20,000 microscopic particles of gold. The precision required is a breakthrough that heralds ultra-miniature sensors, lenses and wires inside nanoscale circuits of the future.
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Vein pattern scanned for authentication Fujitsu has introduced what it claims is the world's first mouse capable of scanning the pattern of veins in the user's hand. The reason? To use the pattern to authenticate the user for access to the host computer.â¦
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T-rays to reveal Da Vinci's lost masterpiece Last week was a big one for those who like their T-rays. The spy-beam technology has been used to view murals hidden beneath inches of plaster, and has also been linked to metamaterials - the stuff from which invisible sheds could be made.â¦
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Pencil and paper are so last-century. New software developed by international researchers can create and manipulate 3-D models of ancient inscribed artifacts.
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Search technology for images may lead to a way to search handwritten manuscripts.