Science sleuths think they found Leonardo da Vinci's DNA Advances in genetics might help us see what set the Renaissance man apart. The painting hangs in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Scientists are one step closer to pinpointing fragments of Leonardo da Vinci's elusive DNA . A team of researchers from the Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project analyzed samples swabbed from a red chalk drawing possibly attributed to the famed polymath, as well as letters written by one of his known cousins.

Elon Musk's AI, Grok, has been telling users the world's richest person is smarter and more fit than anyone in the world, in a raft of recently deleted posts. Elon Musk's AI, Grok, has been telling users the world's richest person is smarter and more fit than anyone in the world, in a raft of recently deleted posts. Elon Musk's Grok AI tells users he is fitter than LeBron James and smarter than da Vinci Thu 20 Nov 2025 23.25 ESTLast modified on Thu 20 Nov 2025 23.27 EST Elon Musk's AI, Grok, has been telling users the world's richest person is smarter and more fit than anyone in the world, in a raft of recently deleted posts that have called into question the bot's objectivity. Users on X using the artificial intelligence chatbot in the past week have noted that whatever the comparison - from questions of athleticism to intelligence and even divinity - Musk would frequently come out on top. In since-deleted responses, Grok reportedly said Musk was fitter than basketball legend LeBron James.

"It's more exhausting," says Afer, a deputy commander of the "Da Vinci Wolves", describing how one of the best-known battalions in Ukraine has to defend against constant Russian attacks. Where once the invaders might have tried small group assaults with armoured vehicles, now the tactic is to try and sneak through on foot one by one, evading frontline Ukrainian drones, and find somewhere to hide. Under what little cover remains, survivors then try to gather a group of 10 or so and attack Ukrainian positions. It is costly – "in the last 24 hours we killed 11," Afer says – but the assaults that previously might have happened once or twice a day are now relentless. To the Da Vinci commander it seems that the Russians are terrified of their own officers, which is why they follow near suicidal orders.

Reading is one of the main ways to stay informed and entertained in an increasingly busy world to live in. Consider that you have used your computer to click on the screen and are now reading an article (such as this one)--either to gain its information, or simply to gain its fun. As an article reader, you may have questions you need to know the answers to about whether the article you're about to read was written by artificial ("A.I.") intelligence. Here are signs that the article you're reading bears the telltale featherlight touch of A.I. Many authors from William Shakespeare to even including Edgar Allan Poe have used clarity as one of their tools with which to make persuasive arguments.

Trees continue to fascinate with their natural beauty and as engineering masterpieces optimal with respect to several independent criteria. Pythagorean tree is a well-known fractal design that realistically mimics the natural tree branching structures. We study various types of Pythagorean-like fractal trees with different shapes of the base, branching angles and relaxed scales in an attempt to identify and explain which variants are the closest match to the branching structures commonly observed in the natural world. Pursuing simultaneously the realism and minimalism of the fractal tree model, we have developed a flexibly parameterised and fast algorithm to grow and visually examine deep Pythagorean-inspired fractal trees with the capability to orderly over- or underestimate the Leonardo da Vinci's tree branching rule as well as control various imbalances and branching angles. We tested the realism of the generated fractal tree images by means of the classification accuracy of detecting natural tree with the transfer-trained deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Having empirically established the parameters of the fractal trees that maximize the CNN's natural tree class classification accuracy we have translated them back to the scales and angles of branches and came to the interesting conclusions that support the da Vinci branching rule and golden ratio based scaling for both the shape of the branch and imbalance between the child branches, and claim the flexibly parameterized fractal trees can be used to generate artificial examples to train robust detectors of different species of trees.

When medical student Alyssa Murillo stepped into surgery, she was met with something most wouldn't expect to find in an operating room: a towering surgical robot. She wasn't there to observe the kind of surgeries she was used to seeing; instead she was getting an in-depth view inside the patient's body through the robot's video console. "It was incredible," says Murillo, who is now a forth-year general surgery resident at the University of California, San Francisco. "You have a full 3D view, which is different from any other minimally invasive surgery technique." The robot Murillo is referring to is the Da Vinci Surgical System.

According to [2], 11.6% of men will develop prostate cancer in their lifetime, with approximately a 20% death rate in the United States. Radical prostatectomy is a popular surgical approach to treat PCa by removing the entire prostate gland since 1905 [3,4]. In clinical practice, the traditional open radical prostatectomy (ORP) has almost been replaced by laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RLP) [5]. As a minimally invasive surgical procedure for PCa, RLP significantly reduces blood loss, hospitalization duration, and postoperative complications [6]. However, the long learning curve associated with laparoscopic procedures limits the application of RLP [7]. Robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (RALP) has been demonstrated [5] to shorten this learning curve by leveraging the wristed instruments and the 3-D endoscopic camera of the telerobotic surgical system, usually the da Vinci surgical system, to achieve intuitive operation [8]. However, the endoscopic camera cannot localize the prostate lesions nor visualize the sub-surface anatomy of the prostate gland. Therefore, a complementary medical imaging modality is necessary to facilitate RALP.

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. A Spanish hospital carried out a lung transplant using a pioneering technique with a robot and a new access route that no longer requires separating the ribs and opening up the chest, experts said on Monday. Surgeons at Vall d'Hebron hospital in Barcelona used a four-arm robot dubbed "Da Vinci" to cut a small section of the patient's skin, fat and muscle to remove the damaged lung and insert a new one through an eight-centimetre incision in the lower part of the sternum, just above the diaphragm. The new procedure is less painful for the patient, they said, as the wound closes easily, and is safer than the traditional method which requires a 30-centimetre incision and a very delicate post-operative period.

Robots are becoming more and more advanced, with some even starting to look and act like humans. In this blog post, we will be taking a look at three of the most advanced robots in the world today: Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot, Honda's ASIMO robot, and Da Vinci's surgical robot. The next generation of robots is being developed by companies such as Boston Dynamics and Asimo. These companies are developing robots that are more human-like in their appearance and behavior. The goal is to create robots that can interact with humans on a more personal level.

Robotic surgery, also called robot-assisted surgery, allows doctors to perform many types of complex procedures with more precision, flexibility, and control than is possible with conventional techniques. Robotic surgery is usually associated with minimally invasive surgery -- procedures performed through tiny incisions. It is also sometimes used in certain traditional open surgical procedures. The following decade saw an unprecedented growth of robotic surgery in India. There are currently 66 centers and 71 robotic installations as on July 2019, with more than 500 trained robotic surgeons in our country.