Over the course of a 10-year career at Boeing, Bill Nye:

Performed scientific research to generate models and explanations, innovated solutions, tested those solutions and gathered data, ran simulations, documented further solutions, and revised those models and solutions when new data/research was produced. This produced several inventions and patents, including parts used in the 747 aircraft.

Research, synthesis, explanation, testing, revision, publication.

But naw I'm smarter than Bill Nye cause I made a meme tho /s