ver since her fascinating TED Talk during the Mission Blue Voyage, we've been in awe of scientist Edith Widder's work. She's come up with bright new ways (quite literally) to study life in the deep sea using bioluminescence.
Deep-sea biologist Edith Widder was working on a ship positioned off Japan’s Ogasawara Islands when Wen-Sung Chung asked her to step into the lab to see something. Cameras followed her as she got up. This was not unusual, since the Japan Broadcasting Commission (NHK) and the Discovery Channel were funding the expedition, which was being conducted from a research yacht named Alucia leased from a billionaire hedge fund owner.
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