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]}

Personal life

In 2021, Hill publicly revealed that he was diagnosed with autism. ^{[‡ 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.