With Steven Spielberg’s bitey classic turning 50, the director and producer of the new "definitive" Jaws documentary weigh in ...

“Mona Lisa effect” applies to animals, too Chick experiments hint at why eyespots evolved independently in different species.

The artist said he was inspired to create the image after his visit to the Louvre in Paris was ruined by people glued to ...

The Mona Lisa effect: How eyespots deter predators that approach from different directions Chicks are intimidated by eyespots that appear to gaze at them, providing an explanation for why eyespots ...

This is called the "Mona Lisa effect" after the best-known portrait with the effect described, and it is created because the painter precisely centered the pupils of the portrayed person.

The Louvre will be renovated and 'Mona Lisa' will have her own room French President Emmanuel Macron laid out an ambitious plan for a "reimagined, restored and expanded" Louvre. An art critic says ...

Dozens of experts have studied the Mona Lisa to determine the scientific reasons for this effect. One is that in the three-dimensional real world, shadows and light on a face shift as our vantage ...

The bulletproof glass casing surrounding the Mona Lisa was doused with soup on January 28 by two food activists who slipped their decanters past the Louvre's security.

Louvre will undergo expansion and restoration project, Macron says As part of the project, the "Mona Lisa" painting will be moved to a new spot.

What is mona lisa doing? At first glance the subject of the world’s most famous painting seems to be smiling. Look again and her smile fades. When it next reappears, it is a different sort of ...

Perhaps the reason why the Mona Lisa maintains her famously enigmatic smile is that she benefits from one of Paris’ best-kept secrets: An underground cooling system that’s been helping her ...