This program is sponsored by the Covley Prize, which honors scientists for breakthroughs

in astrophysics, nanoscience, and neuroscience.

The Covley Prize is a partnership among the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters,

the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research, and the U.S.-based Covley Foundation in

Los Angeles, California.

I'm Alan Alder, and this is Clear and Vivid, conversations about connecting and communicating.

I'm Alan Alder.

If you were to be able to sit inside the star, it would be a very simple, connected,

community-side-of-concert hall, and listening to the sound waves that propagate into the

concert hall.

Of course, we don't sit inside stars, so we can't really literally hear it.

And some people say that's all the better so because the sound is not like the symphony

of an orchestra, but the analogy is there.

That's Belgian astronomer Connie Arts.

She's pioneered the astonishing ability to listen into the star quakes of distant stars.

Not only is this allowed us to learn the stars' ages and interior workings, but it's also

helped in the hunt for Earth-like planets orbiting those stars.

Many arts has just been awarded the 2022 Covley Prize for Astrophysics.

A fellow Covley Prize winner in the field of nanoscience is Chemist George White Sides.

His curiosity-driven research has led to dozens of breakthrough technologies.

He's now on the hunt for a radical new way to store the tsunami of data the world produces

each day.

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