Bioluminescence is one of those words, six science-sounding syllables, that might make some readers back away slowly. Such hesitation would be a shame, however, if it stops anyone from picking up ...

Watching Life Illuminated, the lovely new documentary about marine biologist Dr. Edith Widder, I kept thinking of a scene in the 1997 movie Contact, in which Jodie Foster plays an astronaut who sees a ...

EXCLUSIVE: In the new documentary A Life Illuminated, marine biologist Dr. Edie Widder comments, "You never get tired of this." The "this" she refers to is sinking below the ocean surface to explore ...

Two new books, Edith Widder’s “Below the Edge of Darkness” and Helen Scales’s “The Brilliant Abyss,” explore the darkest reaches and all that glows there. By Robert Moor In the deep sea, it is always ...

Bioluminescence is one of those words, six science-sounding syllables, that might make some readers back away slowly. Such hesitation would be a shame, however, if it stops anyone from picking up ...

“A Life Illuminated,” a 2025 documentary by Tasha Van Zandt about famed marine biologist Dr. Edith Widder (J'73), premiered for Boston audiences on Oct. 22. The historic Coolidge Corner Theatre in ...

Humans have been looking for the giant squid for decades. Oceanographer Edith Widder shares how innovative technology helped her capture the squid... What Did It Take To Find The Giant Squid? Part 2 ...

Subscribe to Say More on YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. Deep-sea explorer Edith “Edie” Widder will never forget her first dive into the deep ocean. The second she turned off the lights on ...

Explorer Edith Widder has spent her career seeking life and light in the depths of the ocean. Tom Smoyer, used with permission. The majority of the ocean’s water is out of reach of the sun’s rays. Yet ...

Expeditions to the depths of the oceans have revealed strange dark worlds bristling with species new to science – now the race is on to discover them. If the Earth's oceans were the size of the island ...