The enigmatic, painted smile of the "Mona Lisa" is known around the world, but that famous face recently displayed a startling new range of expressions, courtesy of artificial intelligence (AI).

The measurements were repeated as the image was cropped and zoomed in 15 different ways, including images just showing the Mona Lisa’s eyes. The image was also slightly moved left and right to ...

Scientists created this picture of the Mona Lisa using genetically modified E. coli bacteria. Such teeny little artists! The Italian researchers weren’t just playing around with bacteria for fun.

Mona Lisa's famous smile might not have been genuine when she was painted by Leonardo da Vinci more than 500 years ago.

This is an accurate millimetric replica of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, formed by approximately one million E. coli cells that were genetically engineered to respond to light.

Samsung’s AI only needs a single image to animate it, which makes the tech even more interesting. But this is the kind of feature that could put a dangerous weapon into the hands of people with ...

The Prado Museum version of the Mona Lisa (left) and the Louvre painting (center) show the subject from slightly different angles that can combine into a 3-D image (right). C.-C. Carbon et al ...

In 2023, historian Silvano Vinceti claimed to have identified a bridge that appears in the background of the Mona Lisa as the Romito di Laterina bridge in Italy’s Arezzo province.. Vinceti’s ...

Every day, thousands of people from around the world crowd into a stark, beige room at Paris’s Louvre Museum to view Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa.” But why?

For this black-and-white image of the Mona Lisa (at top), the first row shows how well a green-optimized metalens captures the image for green light, ...