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This is Science Friday. I'm Flor Lichten. Today in the podcast, we're bringing you a live show from the Eccles Theater in Salt Lake City.

We're talking about how you bring science to life

for broad audiences. Instead of a frozen moment in time, you can really tell a story. And at its essence,

that is what exhibits do. They help scientists and researchers tell stories. I want to do an experiment.

Close your eyes and imagine diving into a cell.

You're paddling around in the cytoplasm, you're climbing up on a mitochondria.

If you're having a hard time picturing this, that's okay. There are professionals who do this

for a living. Our next guests are expert science interpreters. They take the results section of a

research paper and translate it into something tangible, like a 40-foot-tall dinosaur skeleton

or a 3D animation of cellular machinery

that would be too small to see.

Here to tell us how they bring science to life

are Dr. Janet Awasa,

head of the University of Utah's animation lab

and director of the Genetic Science Learning Center.

And Tim Lee, director of exhibits

at the Natural History Museum of Utah.

Welcome to you both to Science Friday.

Thank you so much.

Okay, Tim, I feel like you have a lot of people's dream job.

When you were a kid and other kids were like, I want to be a fireman or a marine biologist or you're like, no, I want to make dioramas.

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