The Key to Telling a Science Story

Re daniel chapiro is a science reporter. His stories are never so personal or so intimate as a radio diary. But still, when i talk to him over skipe, he told me his job is to figure out how to help the listener connect somehow emotionally to the scientific ideas he's exploring. That's tough. Why do we need to connect on an emotional level? Aren't emotions the opposite of science? And then understanding th scientist as a character is a way for us to understand, through his passion for his work, something about why saving lions matters.