Lake City Playhouse took two big risks in deciding to stage Les Misérables. The first concerns timing. It was only last September that the Spokane Civic Theatre opened its season with the same musical ...

Using artificial intelligence (AI) to combine data from full-body x-ray images and associated genomic data from more than 30,000 UK Biobank participants, a study by researchers at The University of ...

If Barbie was made according to normal human proportions, she would be curvier, shorter, and twice her size. Her breasts would be significantly less perky, her bottom would be heavier and her legs ...

The “Vitruvian Man,” which Leonardo drew in about 1490, seems to summarize all of his work. Vitruvius’ long-forgotten book, printed in 1486, stated that to achieve beauty and harmony, buildings must ...

You may remember the "Average Barbie" doll that artist Nickolay Lamm created as a reaction to the problematic body proportions of the iconic fashion doll. Lamm says that he received a lot of requests ...

Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man with Golden ratios highlighted. Source: Credit: Modified by Rafael Tamargo Over 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci created illustrations for a book, On the Divine Proportion (De ...

Combining data from full-body x-ray images and associated genomic data from more than 30,000 UK Biobank participants, researchers have helped illuminate the genetic basis of human skeletal proportions ...

A long-standing riddle surrounding Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man has been solved after 500 years, offering a fresh perspective on the Renaissance master’s genius. The Vitruvian Man, known for ...

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man with Golden ratios highlighted. Source: Credit: Modified by Rafael Tamargo Over 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci created illustrations for a book, On the Divine Proportion (De ...