Kyle Hill (YouTuber)

Kyle Hill is an American science communicator and YouTuber who is the host of Because Science.

Early life and education

Hill graduated from Marquette University.

Career

Hill is a science editor for Nerdist, on whose YouTube channel he hosts Muskwatch.

Writing for Scientific American, Kyle Hill praised the 2013 game The last of us for its plausibility, basing its zombification process on a fictional strain of the parasitic Cordyceps fungus, a real-world genus whose members control the behavior of their arthropod hosts in "zombielike" ways to reproduce.

In September 2016, it was announced that Hill would host the television series MythBusters: The Search.

Because Science

Kyle Hill hosted Because Science, an educational series produced by Nerdist Industries that features explanations of the science and physics behind fantasy figures.

Personal life

In 2021, Hill publicly revealed that he was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome.