No question is too nerdy.
Kyle Hill is an award-winning science educator and entertainer based in Los Angeles, California. He received his bachelors of science in civil and environmental engineering from Marquette University in 2011, and his masters of arts in science communication from the same university in 2013. His work has been published in WIRED, Popular Science, Slate and The Boston Globe, he has appeared as an expert on Fox News, Al Jazeera America, BBC World Service, and Huffington Post Live, held writing positions at Scientific American and Discover Magazine, and has worked as a TV host/expert for Science Channel (MythBusters: The Search, How to Build Everything), Netflix (Bill Nye Saves the World), and Al Jazeera America (TechKnow). Kyle was the Science Editor of Nerdist.com and host of the popular YouTube science show Because Science from 2014 to 2020.
He is now the writer/host/producer of his own venture — [THE FACILITY] — and was named one of the top science communicators to follow by WIRED magazine in 2013, Science Influencer of the Year by the Outpost in 2020, science communication advisor to the White House in 2022, and social media ambassador to the Dogs of Chernobyl program in 2023.
Kyle's goal as a science educator and entertainer is to teach science in a fun and digestible way. He gives presentations at schools and conventions across the country, using enthusiasm and passion to help get another generation excited about science, technology, engineering, and math.
In 2016, Kyle hosted MythBusters: The Search on the Science Channel, the highest rated show on the network that year. This was the aftermath of turning a water heater into a rocket. No really.
Kyle created the popular online science show Because Science, which garnered over 300 million views over its lifetime and gained 1,000,000 subscribers in just 15 months. Kyle’s latest venture is [THE FACILITY], a new channel that is his nerdy base of operations, which exploded with 100,000 subscribers in five days and 1,000,000 subscribers in 18 months.