Galileo Academy of Science and Technology

Photo of the Day

• Monastery Window, Greece March 11, 2010
  A trinity of sun, sky, and sea paints an inspiring backdrop for the Xenofontos monastery on Mount Athos. According to Orthodox tradition, Noah summoned the animals to the ark by rapping a wooden mallet on a plank. In similar fashion, mallets (in foreground) are used today to call monks to prayer. […]
• Young Indian Nomad March 10, 2010
  A roof overhead is new for Punkti, a shepherd's daughter in Rajasthan. Family men still live under the stars, staying close to their animals. […]
• Nasca Lines, Peru March 9, 2010
  In the coastal desert of southern Peru, sprawling figures etched on the land—a spider, a monkey, a strange flying animal, and more—have inspired wonder in air travelers since first spotted in the 1920s. Now scientists believe they know why ancient people created the designs, beginning more than 2,000 years ago. […]
• Tomato Clownfish March 8, 2010
  A male tomato clownfish (Amphiprion frenatus) tends his field of developing eggs like a gardener, scooping away ones with dead embryos. He oxygenates the eggs by fanning them with his pectoral fins. […]
• Simonos Petras Monastery March 7, 2010
  Redoubt of the reclusive, Simonos Petras monastery was founded in 1257 more than 800 feet above the Aegean Sea. It is one of 20 monasteries on the steep-sloped Greek peninsula of Mount Athos, a popular pilgrimage site sometimes called the Christian Tibet. […]
• Pollen on Geranium Stigma March 6, 2010
  The size of the grains is measured in millionths of a meter, but the romantic journeys of pollen are epic. The dozens of golden grains that have successfully reached a Geranium phaeum flower's stigma must compete to be among the few that achieve fertilization. […]
• Eastern Orthodox Christian Monks March 5, 2010
  On the holy peninsula of Mount Athos, monks chant "Christos anesti—Christ is risen" during a midnight vigil. This Easter gathering ends seven weeks of solemn fasting. Monks rise to pray during the quietest hours of the night because that is when they believe the heart is most open. […]
• Sooty Albatross, South Georgia March 4, 2010
  Photo: Sooty albatross A light-mantled sooty albatross looks down on Gold Harbour in South Georgia, a remote British outpost in the far South Atlantic. Individuals of the species can live past 40, so this nesting bird may have witnessed a change in view. In 1985 a glacier buried this shore; since then the ice has retreated a half mile inland. […]
• Hadza Man, Tanzania March 3, 2010
  A Hadza man finds the best vantage point for spotting game on the windswept land of central Tanzania. Africa's last remaining hunter-gatherers, the Hadza subsist on wild game, edible plants, and honey, adjusting their diets depending on season and circumstance. […]
• Women Digging, India March 2, 2010
  During the dry season herding activity slackens, and the Rabari alter their routines. In Rajasthan, women turn to grueling wage labor, earning two dollars a day for digging a reservoir. […]