Rationality in the USA
Neil Denny, presenter and producer of the Little Atoms podcast, sends dispatches from his road trip exploring science and anti-science in the US
'We don't have to be afraid of the real evidence' – Creation Museum
Neil Denny: A trip to the Creation Museum seems like harmless fun until you see the eager schoolchildren streaming through its doors
Wanted: alien life – dead or alive
Neil Denny: Much of the work of Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California is focused on searching for traces of past life on Mars, but astrobiologist Kevin Hand dreams of finding living creatures on watery moons
How would the public react if Seti found evidence of alien life?
'In a sense, we've run that experiment,' Seth Shostak, chief alien hunter at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, tells Neil Denny
How rational is America?
The home of conspiracy theories, creationism and climate scepticism is also a scientific powerhouse. Neil Denny is on a road trip to explore this contradiction
