Kyle Hill (YouTuber)

Kyle Hill
Hill in 2018
Personal information
Nationality	United States
Occupation	Science communicator
Website	https://www.kylehill.net
YouTube information
Channels	Kyle Hill Because Science
Years active	2011–present
Subscribers	2.6 million [1]
Views	416 million [1]
Contents are in	English
Associated acts	Nerdist
Last updated: May 2025

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. ^{[‡ 1]}

Career

Hill is a science editor for Nerdist , on whose YouTube channel he hosts Muskwatch. ^{[‡ 2]}

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. ^{[‡ 3]}

In September 2016, it was announced that Hill would host the television series MythBusters: The Search . ^{[‡ 4]}

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. ^{[‡ 5]}

References

1. "About Kyle Hill". YouTube.

Primary sources

In the text, these references are preceded by a double dagger (‡):

1. https://www.kylehill.net/bio
2. "Muskwatch w/ Kyle Hill & Dan Casey – YouTube". YouTube. Retrieved 2017-07-21.
3. Hill, Kyle (25 June 2013). "The Fungus that Reduced Humanity to The Last of Us". Scientific American. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
4. ""MythBusters: The Search" unveils host". RealScreen. Retrieved April 20, 2017.
5. Kyle Hill (April 10, 2021). Autism is my superpower. YouTube.