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Young Aaron asks the Science Guy about the uncountable lengths of space. Bill responds with a challenge.

With the greatest hair and mustache style of all time. “I have signs in my kitchen to remind me not to eat breakfast and that my job is always. Most […]

Science Guy Bill Nye is thrown a deep religious hypothetical: If there is a god that is truly good, intelligent and all-knowing, should we submit to its governance?

Most amusement parks like Disney and Six Flags pride themselves on being family friendly attractions. These parks do not.

Sigmund Freud said the two great protections we all had against inevitable human suffering were love and work. Will we lose work in the second machine age?

On the 500th anniversary of the death of Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch, his native Netherlands is letting the freak flags fly.

If it bleeds, it leads.

Super Bowl season illustrates a deep part of who we are, not just as sports fans.

Alleged deserter Bowe Bergdahl is the subject of this season’s popular podcast Serial and he practically confessed to desertion on it.

Advocates masquerading as scientists to try and establish credibility for biased claims do the public, and science, serious harm. And journalists who fail to call them out and report biased studies as fact compound the damage.

A live blog event from Nobel Prizewinner Art McDonald. “It’s ironic: in order to observe the Sun, you need to go kilometers underground.” –Art McDonald In the 1960s, a huge […]

Robots and computers will not just eliminate our jobs; they will also dissolve important aspects of the family and our pair-bonded partnerships.

It’s Tuesday, which means we’ve got another submitted question for Bill Nye to answer. The topic this week is the same as last week: black holes.

Bill Nye is an engineer by trade, so you know his answer to this one is going to be good. Learn how the rudder of a Boeing 747 can potentially inspire an inventor to develop a better brand of prosthetics.

Planet Nine? More like “Planet maybe.” “Finding out that something you have just discovered is considered all but impossible is one of the joys of science.” –Mike Brown Last week, the […]

Let’s take a breath.

Rising high school senior Wesley asks Bill for career advice. The Science Guy delivers.

Until the Internet was allowed on commercial flights, the solution to assuage my fear of flying was to find the nearest airport pub and throw a few back before boarding the plane. That’s all changed.

Could we redesign shopping as a system of “catch-and-release,” so that, like sport fishing, it’s the adventure and not the prize that becomes central?

After then-president George W. Bush phoned Jacques Chirac, his French counterpart had to consult a biblical scholar to make sense of the conversation. 

Even though we can get better, faster, cheaper products elsewhere, the market always goes with Apple.

Do these facial composites merely represent national averages, or are they national “ideals”?

Most likely not, though Bill’s not ruling it out completely.

If you remove the media microscope, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah has promise but should have more “with Trevor Noah.”

Last year almost 80 billion videos were watched on Pornhub, the world’s largest repository of free online porn. No wonder Playboy has to rethink its revenue stream.

An Applicant’s Guide To NASA Astronaut Selection This guest post was written by Brian Shiro: NOAA geophysicist, NASA researcher, and co-founder of Astronauts for Hire. “I wasn’t destined to be […]

When a trophy just for showing up does more damage than good. 

“You’ll never get a good job, son, if you’re smoking pot all the time!” That’s a scolding you won’t hear in the future.  

In the murky land of Twitter, a war rages online- and offline as comedians attempt to protect their writing from other writers.

It’s not the end of the world, guys.