Bill Nye built a rare kind of celebrity, the sort that turned lab goggles and goofy skits into a gateway to real scientific curiosity for millions of kids. That legacy still looms large, but his ...

Nye and collaborators developed a pilot for Bill Nye the Science Guy for Seattle PBS station KCTS-TV in 1993, pitching it as "Mr. Wizard meets Pee-wee's Playhouse." It's the perfect description of the ...

"It's really a matter of life and death," Nye said. Bill Nye the Science Guy has a simple message for many of the same people who grew up learning from his television show: choose to stay at home and ...