The Toughest, Biggest, and Hottest Science of 2017

2017 has been an eventful year, so as it comes to a close we'd like to look back at some of its most superlative science.

Hosted by: Hank Green
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[L-ry]

Hank I understand that it might not be the most efficient or convineint method, but dumping armies of caterpillars onto plastic seems like the _coolest_ waste management strategy we could use.

[killercaos]

I'd totally start a caterpillar plastic recycling business.
"You got plastic? I've got worms."

[Master_Therion]

A caterpillar that eats plastic? If we find a tick that does that too we shall call it... the Plas-Tick.

[JoseRamirez-yhll]

*THANK YOU TO ALL THE PATRONS! I LOVE THIS CHANNEL!*

[jangambler]

Thank you very much to all the patrons out there!

[xerotoninz]

studying those worms will be the best thing this planet needs

[ShirinRose]

I can't afford to be a patreon patron right now, but I watched the whole ad without skipping it. Happy new year SciShow xx

[monkman-gsgi]

Ahh yes, ending 2017 off with a bang! I love it!

[Tanjman_]

Hank is the best host of all time, I'd argue he is at level if not almost as good as Bill Nye

[MainAcc]

Thank you for everything you're doing! I get so much information from you even though I don't have the time to actually read science articles and news! So thanks!

[abdlhmdx]

So you're saying that these worms were discovered to eat plastic this year, I Knew that since I was a Kid!

Once I was once helping my uncle with his beehives and we used to get rid of these worms and one day I brought a plastic bag and put these worms in it and after I finished I had put them in his car and after a while, we went home and as we were going I saw a worm crawling then I've gone and got the bag and I saw that it was filled with holes! I told my uncle and he said why did you put them there! they eat everything! Why didn't you put them in the box! And since that day I thought that everybody knew that they've done that.

[jetjazz]

The plastic eating caterpillar is this planet's literal Superman. We would've been screwed without it...

[MFsyrup]

Science of 2017 videos:
Scishow > Scientific American

[tomscisci]

Happy new year to all in scishow and its "relazives"

[shadowdancer]

Thank you Hank for making science interesting and amazing.

[JaiKrishna]

I am really grateful to you SciShow and your other channels like SciShow Space, SciShow Psych as they provided an exponential growth to my knowledge of science and the world. 😘😘😘😘

[muhammadihsaanjuliandra]

The planet will get hotter when I drop my mixtape in 2018

[whyamihere]

“I have no clue what you’re talking about. I’ve noticed no storm surges this year. I’ve just noticed that Florida is now a lovely beach an those ‘Florida Man’ articles stopped popping up.” Do you like my impression of everyone that denies climate change?

[chocobacon]

i've never watched a SciShow video so soon after it's been posted!

[renatoe]

well here in Peru we had the strongest EL Niño since 1998, but apparently it was only the coastal component without significant increace of temperature in the ecuatorial central Pacific